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Dev tools · March 30, 2020

Prefect

The new standard in dataflow automation

Prefect launched on March 30, 2020 with 5 votes, #1,643 of 4,417 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

Prefect is a new workflow management system, designed for modern infrastructure and powered by an open-source engine. Use a flexible Python framework to easily combine tasks into workflows, then deploy, schedule, and monitor their execution in the Prefect UI.

Orchestrate workflows with Prefect. Connect AI agents to your tools and data with Horizon. Open-source foundations, production-ready platforms.

Replace brittle cron jobs with pipelines that heal themselves, so your data always arrives on time. From startups to enterprises, teams trust Prefect with the workflows their businesses depend on. Add @flow to your Python functions for state, logging, and automatic retries. No new framework to learn. Run on managed compute, keep execution inside your own VPC, or anywhere in between. The same code deploys anywhere. Prefect executes your flows on your infrastructure, retries failures, scales out, and tracks every task, so runs recover on their own. Skip building your own cron-and-Slack monitoring stack. One UI shows every run and flags what's late or failed, so you get your engineering hours…from prefect.io

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