This document provides an overview of Airflow, an open-source workflow management platform for authoring, scheduling and monitoring data pipelines. It describes Airflow's key components including the web server, scheduler, workers and metadata database. It explains how Airflow works by parsing DAGs, instantiating tasks and changing their state as they are scheduled, queued, run and monitored. The document also covers concepts like DAGs, operators, dependencies, concurrency vs parallelism and advanced topics such as subDAGs, hooks, XCOM and branching workflows.