@Marvin if I run task in the background, aka deferred task, does it run outside of a flow

hi @Tri - it can run either inside or outside a flow!

Hi @Nate, I'm new to Prefect, the deferred task section is still not very clear to me. Is it just mainly to schedule a task to run at a later time, in a flow? https://docs.prefect.io/3.0/develop/deferred-tasks

background tasks are a newer pattern in prefect which is similar to Celery in nature, ie you have some webapp and it backgrounds requests to some workers that you can horizontally scale (examples) if you're just getting started with prefect I'd encourage you check out the more traditional docs on running tasks concurrently