Prefect
prefect.ioAutomation for the context era
Ops & Infraworkflow-orchestrationpythondata-pipelinesopen-sourceautomationetlai-infrastructure
About
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.
Problem
Building reliable, observable, and scalable data pipelines in Python requires significant boilerplate and infrastructure work without a dedicated orchestration layer.
For
Data engineers and Python developers building production workflows and pipelines
How it works
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.
Business model
freemium
Status
launched
Company
Prefect Technologies, Inc.
Launched
2018
Founders
- Jeremiah Lowin