A Head-to-Head Match: Cron Jobs vs. Apache Airflow
Got some tasks to schedule and automate? If you’ve been looking into it, you’ve probably stumbled upon two giants in the game: the good and old Cron and the new tool that everyone is talking about, aka Apache Airflow. Sure, they both do the job, but they’re different beasts when it comes to what they can do, how they do it, and how much of a brain-teaser they can be. So let’s do a deep-dive comparison of these two, and see which one could be your knight in shining armor....