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-# dags
+# DAGs
 
+These are some simple DAGs (directed acyclic graphs) of tasks that I may need
+to run.
+
+I'm implementing them using Makefiles and scheduling them using cron, because
+that's perfectly sufficient for my use-case and something like Apache Airflow
+would be overkill.
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