Eugene Yan's article clarifies a common point of confusion regarding Airflow job scheduling, explaining that Airflow jobs are designed to run one schedule interval *after* the scheduled period has ended. Unlike cron jobs that execute at a precise scheduled time, Airflow's design ensures that a job intended for a specific day, for example, will only begin processing after that day has concluded. This approach is beneficial for tasks like ETL, where data for a given period needs to be fully available before processing can commence. AI
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