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Prefect

Simplifying workflow development and management with Python-powered Community-driven, flexible, and scalable.

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Prefect is a community-driven workflow platform built for Python developers using AI technology, offering features like orchestration, observability, and automatic retries. It simplifies the transformation of Python code into interactive workflow applications, and enables standardization and collaboration across teams through APIs and managed cloud services. Prefect provides self-hosted solutions as well as a managed cloud service (Prefect Cloud) with features like managed orchestration, automations, webhooks, and enterprise-class security for production-ready code deployment. It's easy to start using Prefect with Python 3.8 or later and can be installed via pip, focusing on simplicity, flexibility, and community collaboration.

About Prefect

Prefect is a platform developed for building, observing, and managing workflows using Python and AI technology. The community-driven project is made up of thousands of data engineers who contribute to creating a new kind of workflow system. Prefect simplifies the transformation of Python code into interactive workflow applications by offering features like orchestration, observability, automatic retries, distributed execution, scheduling, and caching.

Prefect allows teams dependent on you to access your pipelines, business logic, and more through an API. Additionally, it enables standardization of workflow development and deployment across organizations, ensuring resilient and dynamic workflows that react to the environment around them. Prefect's offerings include both self-hosted solutions and a managed cloud service, Prefect Cloud, which provides managed orchestration, automations, webhooks, and enterprise-class security for production-ready code deployment.

Prefect makes it easy to start building workflows by requiring Python 3.8 or later, and offering installation through pip. The platform's core values are centered around simplicity, flexibility, and community collaboration. Join the community, contribute to the project, and discover more about Prefect's offerings through their tutorials, concepts documentation, and user interface guide.