From the course: Learning Apache Airflow

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Creating your first DAG

Creating your first DAG

- [Instructor] In this demo, we are going to be creating and executing our very first Airflow DAG. Now, but before we do that, you have to admit that the Airflow UI with all of those example DAGs in there is kind of cluttered and hard to work with. Let's fix that. Here I am on the terminal where I have my web server running. I'm going to kill the web server, as well as the scheduler so that I can change something in the Airflow configuration file. So my web server has been killed. I'm going to head over to the terminal window where I have the scheduler running. I'm going to go ahead and kill the scheduler as well. Now, both the scheduler and the web server are down. So let's head over to our airflow.cfg file, and within here, notice that we have load_examples set to True by default. Now I'm going to set load_examples to False. This is a configuration property within the core section. Setting this to False will turn…

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