Airflow Executors: Past, present and future

Presented by Niko Oliveira at Airflow Summit 2023. Executors are a core concept in Apache Airflow and are an essential piece to the execution of DAGs. They have seen a lot of investment over the year and there are many exciting advancements that will benefit both users and contributors. This talk will briefly discuss executors, how they work and what they are responsible for. It will then describe Executor Decoupling (AIP-51) and how this has fully unlocked development of third-party executors.