Prefect
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Modern workflow orchestration framework that makes data pipelines easy to build, run, and observe. Pythonic API with hybrid execution.
Overview
Prefect offers a modern, Pythonic approach to workflow orchestration that feels far more natural than Airflow's DAG-based model, making it the rising choice for data engineering teams seeking developer-friendly orchestration.
Pros
- +Most Pythonic API
- +Easy to start
- +Good observability
- +Hybrid execution
Cons
- -Cloud features are paid
- -Smaller ecosystem
- -v1 to v2 migration painful
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