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What is the difference between sensor tasks and standard operators in Apache Airflow when orchestrating heavy data pipelines?

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  1. Sensors · airflow.apache.org
  2. Architecture Overview · apache-airflow-docs.s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com
  3. Sensors · airflow.staged.apache.org
  4. Deferrable Operators & Triggers · airflow.apache.org
  5. airflow/airflow-core/docs/authoring-and-scheduling/deferring.rst at main · apache/airflow · github.com

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