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Prefect

Python workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines.

Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python. Data engineers use it to turn scripts into production workflows with scheduling, retries, and observability, run against a self-hosted server or Prefect Cloud.

Documented features

• Turns Python functions into workflows with flow and task decorators
• Schedules workflows with cron-based schedules
• Retries failed tasks automatically
• Caches task results for reuse
• Triggers workflows from external events
• Handles task dependencies and conditional branching logic
• Monitors workflow activity through a UI
• Runs against a self-hosted Prefect server or managed Prefect Cloud
• Requires Python 3.10 or higher

Feature summaries come from the project's own repository and documentation and describe the software as documented on the verification date, not an evaluation.