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Mature workflow orchestration tool; essential for data pipelines and highly scalable.

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Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python. - PrefectHQ/prefect
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Prefect is an open-source Python workflow orchestration framework (requires Python 3.10+) that transforms scripts into production data pipelines using @flow and @task decorators with built-in scheduling, retries, caching, and event-based automations. The managed Prefect Cloud service orchestrates over 200 million tasks monthly for enterprises, while prefect-client offers a lighter SDK for ephemeral environments communicating with remote servers. A community of over 25,000 practitioners contributes to integrations and continuous improvement.

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