Prefect
Automation for the context era
Prefect is an open-source Python workflow orchestration engine that lets developers build, schedule, and monitor production-grade data pipelines using native Python—no DSLs or YAML required. It provides automatic state tracking, failure handling, retries, caching, and a real-time monitoring UI out of the box. Prefect also offers a managed cloud platform (Prefect Cloud) and an AI infrastructure product called Horizon for building AI applications.
Developers decorate Python functions with Prefect's task and flow decorators, then deploy them to run on any infrastructure—locally, in containers, or on Kubernetes—while Prefect handles scheduling, state management, retries, and monitoring automatically.
Data engineers and Python developers building production workflows and pipelines
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- Prefect Technologies, Inc.
- Launched
- 2018
Founders
- Jeremiah Lowin
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