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Apache Airflow Implementation · Leeds

Apache Airflow Implementation in Leeds

Implementing Airflow for Leeds organisations, where treating it as a scheduler with a web interface leads directly to the first surprise. Pipelines have a notion of the period they are processing, and deploying one with a start date in the past can trigger a great many historical runs at once — which is a feature and rarely what anybody intended.

Why this comes up

The problem

A new pipeline was deployed with a start date last year, and it immediately began executing hundreds of backfill runs.

What you get

What we deliver

  • Catchup behaviour set explicitly per pipeline rather than left at the default
  • Tasks written to be idempotent, since reruns are normal rather than exceptional
  • Pipelines parameterised by the period they process, not by the current date
  • Concurrency limits set so one heavy pipeline cannot exhaust the workers
  • Failure alerting configured to reach a person rather than sitting in the interface
  • Dependencies expressed in the pipeline rather than in scheduled start times

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Working in Leeds

Yorkshire & the Humber

Leeds is the largest financial and legal centre outside London and a major digital health hub, so compliance, audit trails and data handling tend to be first-order requirements here rather than afterthoughts.

Financial, legal and health clients dominate, so the work almost always carries compliance, audit and data-handling requirements from day one.

Sectors we work with in Leeds

  • Financial & Legal Services
  • Healthcare & Digital Health
  • Retail
  • Higher Education

What we work with

Technologies and platforms

  • Apache Airflow
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kubernetes

Who we work with

Industries we serve

  • Retail
  • Financial services
  • Media companies
  • Technology companies
  • Manufacturing

Why us

Why Leeds businesses choose Asionis

  • Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
  • No long-term contracts required
  • All team members UK-based
  • Dedicated account manager and development team
  • Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
  • Scalable from startup to enterprise

How we work

  1. Step 1

    Free consultation

    A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.

  2. Step 2

    Proposal

    Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.

  3. Step 3

    Build

    Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.

  4. Step 4

    Launch and support

    We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.

Apache Airflow Implementation in Leeds — common questions

What is catchup and why does it surprise people?
It runs every interval between the start date and now. That is exactly right for a pipeline meant to process history and alarming when someone sets a start date casually — it should be a deliberate setting rather than something discovered on deployment.
Why does idempotency matter so much?
Because tasks get rerun — after failures, during backfills, when someone clears a run. A task that appends rather than replaces produces duplicated data on the second run, and that duplication is frequently found much later in a figure that looks slightly high.
Should tasks use today's date?
No — they should use the interval being processed. A task querying for today works correctly on the day and produces wrong results in every backfill, which makes historical reruns unusable exactly when you need them most.
How should dependencies be handled?
In the pipeline definition rather than by scheduling one job an hour after another. Time-based sequencing works until something runs long, at which point the second job processes incomplete data — and the failure is silent because both jobs succeeded.
Do you work with businesses across West Yorkshire?
Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout Yorkshire & the Humber, including Leeds and the surrounding West Yorkshire area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
What kind of Leeds businesses do you usually work with?
Financial, legal and health clients dominate, so the work almost always carries compliance, audit and data-handling requirements from day one. Beyond that we work across Financial & Legal Services, Healthcare & Digital Health, Retail and Higher Education.
Do you cover the areas around Leeds?
Yes — we work throughout Yorkshire & the Humber, including Sheffield, Manchester, York, Newcastle. Leeds is an urban area of roughly 800,000+, and we take on work across the wider West Yorkshire region rather than the city boundary alone.

Talk to us about Apache Airflow Implementation in Leeds

A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.

  • Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
  • No long-term contracts required
  • All team members UK-based
  • Dedicated account manager and development team
  • Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
  • Scalable from startup to enterprise

Or reach us directly

07707 771599admin@asionis.com

Leicester, United Kingdom