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Great orchestration tool, but still in its infancy, so expect some rough edges and breaking changes.
What do you like best about the product?
Since Prefect code tends to be just annotated regular code, testing is easy and intuitive, as one can just run the code as if it was regular Python and only testing it on Prefect infrastructure when necessary. There is also a large amount of flexibility in how deployment occurs due to the modularization of all the moving parts (flows, infrastructure, deployments).
What do you dislike about the product?
Since it's a relatively new tool, things change quickly and break quickly unless you're willing to lock into an older version. This introduces other problems, one of them the bugs that are present in the codebase. This is hard to avoid in such a new tool but it's a hassle anyway.
The lack of a full cloud solution also causes some additional overhead, as workers (or agents in the past) are all the responsability of the customer, even if they use the cloud solution.
The lack of a full cloud solution also causes some additional overhead, as workers (or agents in the past) are all the responsability of the customer, even if they use the cloud solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Prefect is an orchestration tool that fills the same niche as Airflow. The difference is that Prefect allows for faster development since you do not need to setup an entire running instance just to run tests. The integration with CI/CD with the use of Projects (or just Deployments now, since those two seem to have been merged together) also makes development much faster.
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Prefect has been a game changer
What do you like best about the product?
Prefect has been integral to our company's data flows and has allowed for SO much more visibility of what is happening with our data pipelines!
What do you dislike about the product?
Getting the agents and workers set up and working reliably was tricky at first, and not knowing the best practices for running workers made it difficult to know where to start, but after being pointed to the appropriate docs in the Prefect slack I was able to get things in a good place.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The detailed logging helps us effectively troubleshoot errors as they occur in dynamic data processes that would be otherwise difficult to pinpoint.
Solid workflow orchestration tool
What do you like best about the product?
- Prefect Cloud is a good UI for managing flows
- Flows are easy to build, maintain and monitor
- Easier to use than Dagster, Luigi and Airflow
- Flows are easy to build, maintain and monitor
- Easier to use than Dagster, Luigi and Airflow
What do you dislike about the product?
- Doesn't have good integration with data governance tools (unlike Airflow)
- No way to deploy/bundle pip requirements with flows unless using Docker images
- (Non-paid) support via Slack is so-so. Not always responsive.
- Prefect Cloud is relatively expensive.
- No way to deploy/bundle pip requirements with flows unless using Docker images
- (Non-paid) support via Slack is so-so. Not always responsive.
- Prefect Cloud is relatively expensive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing, deploying and maintaing data pipelines. Prefect helps us manage pipelines effectively.
A friendly workflow management system
What do you like best about the product?
Its python-native, have a modern UI with a good debugging screen (especially against Airflow), supports the creation of dynamic workflows, and offers an easily manageable learning curve for newcomers.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Prefect's community, while growing, might not be as large as some other workflow management systems, leading to potentially fewer resources and examples available.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Currently, Prefect orchestrates most of our data pipelines that need to fetch data from various sources, process it, and send it to the storage layer. It also includes a Slack notification system in case any job encounters failures.
A useful data-flow orchestration platform
What do you like best about the product?
Prefect doesn't force us into using a specific platform, but rather it integrates quite nicely with our existing codebases and doesn't force us to migrate/buy-in to some isolated/opaque service. The support and community are also incredible additions to the great documentation they make available.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think there are some features pertaining to concurrency and parallelism limits that still need some work when running a high volume of API calls.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Prefect allows us to declare and provide a means for implementing data flows.
A great experience for workflow automation
What do you like best about the product?
The wealth of documentation, examples, and tutorials make it easy to get started as a new user. In addition, the Python API is very simple and easy to learn.
What do you dislike about the product?
The user interface in the new Prefect 2.0 cloud is a bit more difficult to use than the original interface, and IMO a bit of a step backwards.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Prefect is automating all of our ETL pipelines, and data validation processes. We use Prefect to automate ingestion of new data, and generation of features from that data. In addition, we also automate data validation processes and reports send to Slack through Prefect.
Incredibly intuitive and easy to use right out of the box
What do you like best about the product?
Everything works out of the box, you can even run your local flows and have them reflected in the prefect cloud dashboard. It's nice to worry so little about the orchestration and focus on the actual logic. The UI is awesome!
What do you dislike about the product?
Prefect 2 is nice however there is still some features that are in development which would have been ideal to have finished at launch such as built in Flow mapping. (Can still be accomplished with external libs at the moment) and a lot of the blocks need some polishing at the moment. It's still early for V2 so hopeful these will be resolved!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Prefect has allowed us to migrate away for Airflows scheduler which was limiting our runs and causing slowness, to a much simpler and optimized scheduler running on Dask. It allows for easy insight into our 1000's of runs and notifies us immedietly when there is any issue. The framework is very flexible so there is not many limitations in what can be accomplished.
Prefect - the perfect orchestration tool
What do you like best about the product?
Prefect is the best orchestration tool currently for the modern data stack that is tailor-made for data related orchestration. unlike other tools which were being used for data-related orchestration in hindsight. Perfect and the community behind seem to be focused on the right things
What do you dislike about the product?
The documentation for prefect still needs some improvement but its getting better and the developers are constantly working on it and updating it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping solving over data pipeline orchestration needs.
Orchestration and scheduling made easy
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity, Ease of use. Prefect is quickly setup.
What do you dislike about the product?
The api isn't close to good unfortunately
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making flow runs transparent
Prefect is Awesome
What do you like best about the product?
I love the flexibility! Also, the automatic replies
What do you dislike about the product?
So far, all our issues have been around infrastructure, but that's just bc it's a learning curve for our team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automation, automatic retries, triggered loading
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