Getting Started with Prefect | Task Orchestration & Data Workflows

[@KahanDataSolutions]

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[@shaqeer]

Very easy to follow as a complete beginner. It would be amazing to update the second half of the tutorial as new versions of prefect changed the way deployments are done. Thanks.

[@soudaminipanda]

Excellent presentation. Everything is so tightly packaged. No unnecessary stuff. Amazing job.

[@ibowman_UCLA_BRAIN]

Mind-blowingly succinct tutorial, better than the official Prefect docs. Love how you used a simple "hello world" script as an example. Your description of deployments and agents was particularly helpful. Would love to see an example using a Docker container as storage in the future. Will show this to other programmers on my team. Thank you!

[@GoonCity777]

This is the easiest & best explanation I’ve seen on this. It’s so chock full of great content I had to watch it in 1x & 1.25x to grasp it. The rest were slogs

[@hoanglam2814]

Thank you so much. I am currently looking for a simple solution to create a CI/CD ETL pipeline :D I think I would use Prefect with GIthub and Docker

[@KahanDataSolutions]

That sounds like a great idea!

[@kgene521]

Excellent tutorial, thank you for your efforts. I've been trying to get Prefect standardized in my company but I was shaky in deployments/agents/blocks areas. One complaint I have (which is really minor but for me is paiful) is there is too much mouse movements on the screen. PLEASE don't move your mouse so much on the screen. It hurts my eyes and I have a headache after watching it for more than 5-10 minuts. Other than this minor nitpick I appreciate your videos very much. Keep up the good work.

[@royale5981]

Wow, I love this tutorial. Thank you for the videos, and I have been receiving your updates on my email. Thanks man

[@sudhanshuthakur9703]

Thanks!

[@KahanDataSolutions]

Thank you so much for the Super Thanks Sudhansku!

[@sergiogalo137]

as always, this is another amazing video. Thank you very much Michael! oh I ve got a question, the image (I assume its a website) from 0:03, can you share that link please? thanks in advance

[@heliyahasani6859]

prefect explanation ! 🤣 Amazing content easy and simple to follow. Thanks for your effort it helped me a lot ! 💛

[@JebliMohamed]

Great video on Prefect! It's clear how it helps with managing data tools. I'm interested in how to add Prefect to an existing project running sequential Tasks using OpenAI's API assistants?

[@myrsinivak6993]

Thank you Kahan, great starting point for Prefect. One question in case you have some input - I am building workflow capability in my application. I want to allow my app's users to customize and setup their own business workflows. As part of each workflow they can setup different tasks to run from a task pool I am giving them. I came across Prefect and was wondering if it applies in my case. I very much understand the usage of Prefect when it comes to building more static flows or for development / infrastructure teams to automate tasks. But I am wondering if using it to implement a service for users where they customize their own workflows is a good practice. Using Prefect's task state management, ordering, retry policies, etc will be useful but I wanna make sure I am not putting overhead in my app unreasonably. If there is any input on that I would really appreciate it, thank you!

[@AndresOjedacorchuelo]

very good video but leave some questions how do I work with .sql scripts defined in specific path could you give me an example and how can I make them execute at a certain time like airflow that works within the same day

[@usbornestreet]

Great tutorial + narration by Louis CK!

[@AnhNguyen-hj7pd]

I'M really enjoy your video bro! Keep up the great work!!!!

[@KahanDataSolutions]

Much appreciated!

[@juanadearco6356]

Do you mind doing a tutorial on difference between a prefect future and a prefect state and when you would use them in your pipeline?

[@krtmlry2719]

I wish prefect would add more to their documentation, or maybe create something similar to dagster university for better understanding of their product :/

[@dharmanambi817]

I like your videos it is simple and easy to follow, I am moving into data architect / data engineering role is there a way to share the first screen grouped by BI, Transform, extract etc.. Thanks

[@harrywang187]

Hello @Kahan, first, I want to thank you for the great video! It does help me start prefect from scratch. I just have one headache regarding the agent part. As you have shown, I already deployed my workflow to prefect cloud. But it kept saying that my work queue is unhealthy. I figured out that it could be because that I did not start an agent. Then I started an agent using the command you showed, in Visual Studio Code. But once I exited visual studio, my agent will be terminated, thus my workflow can't be run on a schedule. Is there anyway to fix this problem (e.g. let the agent run as always, not depend on VScode)? Thank you very much!

[@robosergTV]

Flyte or Kedro are goood alternatives

[@gakuomuriuki9690]

Masterful

[@raphaeldwain7834]

Very interesting

[@KahanDataSolutions]

Thanks for watching

[@ibnjay7]

Good intro. 😊

[@HongLe-dm2uh]

Hi, i hope you can help me. When i run python file, i had a trouble: ImportError: cannot import name 'SecretField' from 'pydantic'. How can i fix this?

[@thomasj8496]

I tried running my flow code from Github, but it doesn't work. Does my prefect server have to be running on prefect cloud for this to work?

[@uditmittal1]

perfect

[@KahanDataSolutions]

Appreciate it!

[@shahidilhan3139]

is "prefect server start" the same as "prefect orion start"?

[@hoanglam2814]

Finally :D

[@icz]

Is there anything like this, but in Java ? Thanks

[@klttens]

actually no more START FREE and DEPLOY OPENSOURCE buttons there

[@Swaroop8888]

You have some hope till you guys can keep Embiid, trust the process bro 😂

[@pashajar]

How to create a sqlalchrmy block

[@pashajar]

i tried prefect block register -m prefect_sqlalchemy but getting value error

[@as978]

Prefect vs Airflow?

[@KahanDataSolutions]

Both great options. Although I personally have more experience with Prefect.

[@cardionadine7483]

I think compared to airflow, Prerfect looks a lot simpler to implement

[@as978]

Is there an alternative to Prefect Cloud? Implement that portion on an EC2?

[@DecadeSol]

@@as978 Prefect Server is the OSS equivalent of Prefect Cloud, you could deploy it wherever you wanted (directly on a VM, kubernetes, etc)

[@aldredd]

Our CTO was once asked what Prefect was.. "Well you know Airflow? Well it's like Airflow, but actually Good" I can't substantiate that claim, as I don't have enough experience with them, but it was our go-to tool for our Data Platform

[@robosergTV]

prefect cloud is useless as 90% of companies will not allow you to use any cloud solutions (except google, amazon, MS ofc)