prefect — Prefect is a Python-based workflow orchestration framework designed to build, automate, and monitor resilient data pipelines with features like scheduling and retries.

Prefect is a Python-based workflow orchestration framework designed to build, automate, and monitor resilient data pipelines with features like scheduling and retries.

About this project

Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework that allows users to transform Python scripts into production-ready data pipelines. It provides a set of decorators, such as @flow and @task, to organize and observe workflow activity. Key capabilities include: - Automation: Support for scheduling (via cron), caching, and event-based automations. - Resilience: Built-in handling for retries, dependencies, and complex branching logic. - Monitoring: Workflow activity can be tracked through a self-hosted Prefect server or a managed Prefect Cloud dashboard. - Deployment: Ability to turn flows into deployments that can be run manually via UI/CLI or automatically on a schedule. The framework requires Python 3.10+ and offers a lightweight alternative called prefect-client for communicating with remote servers in ephemeral environments.