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12 changes: 10 additions & 2 deletions docs/understanding-airbyte/high-level-view.md
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description: A high level view of Airbyte's components.
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# High-level View
# Architecture overview

Airbyte is conceptually composed of two parts: platform and connectors.

The platform provides all the horizontal services required to configure and run data movement operations e.g: the UI, configuration API, job scheduling, logging, alerting, etc. and is structured as a set of microservices.

Connectors are independent modules which push/pull data to/from sources and destinations. Connectors are built in accordance with the [Airbyte Specification](./airbyte-specification.md), which describes the interface with which data can be moved between a source and a destination using Airbyte. Connectors are packaged as Docker images, which allows total flexibility over the technologies used to implement them.

A more concrete diagram can be seen below:

![3.048-Kilometer view](../.gitbook/assets/understanding_airbyte_high_level_architecture.png)

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* `Config API`: Airbyte's main control plane. All operations in Airbyte such as creating sources, destinations, connections, managing configurations, etc.. are configured and invoked from the API.
* `Scheduler`: The scheduler takes work requests from the API and sends them to the Temporal service to parallelize. It is responsible for tracking success/failure and for triggering syncs based on the configured frequency.
* `Temporal Service`: Manages the task queue and workflows for the Scheduler.
* `Worker`: The worker connects to a source, pulls the data and writes it to a destination.
* `Worker`: The worker connects to a source connector, pulls the data and writes it to a destination.
* `Temporary Storage`: A storage that workers can use whenever they need to spill data on a disk.