I'm reading the docs on

prefect.utilities.annotations.quote

shown below, as I've been getting a warning when passing a large dataframe to prefect tasks. The docs mention the following: >

prefect.utilities.annotations.quote

will disable task dependency tracking for the wrapped object, but likely will increase performance What exactly is task dependency tracking? Is that the little flow chart arrows shown in the prefect UI?

hey @Matthew Bell - yep, dependency tracking in general is the APIs understanding of what task runs depend on each other based on how they pass their results around

@flow
def foo():
  foo_result = foo_task()
  bar(foo_result) # bar takes foo's inputs, so bar "depends" on foo

and yea, in the UI that's visualized with the arrows between task or flow runs

Thanks again, Nate! 🙂