I managed to fetch some information about transactions in Prefect 3.x, as well as an interesting example from ControlFlow:
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Prefect 3.x Transactions:
- Transactions in Prefect help ensure that your workflows can recover smoothly from failures. They support idempotency and allow for operations like rollback in case of task failures. Each task run is associated with a transaction that determines its execution based on a computed cache key.
- You can use transactional patterns to group tasks and manage pipeline failures efficiently. Understand the transaction lifecycle from BEGIN, STAGE, ROLLBACK, to COMMIT to manage states and task executions.
- Check out more about transactions and how to write your first transaction over here:
Prefect Transactions.
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ControlFlow Example:
- In ControlFlow, while there isn't direct mention of transactions related to Prefect, the framework is shown handling complex scenarios such as a customer call routing task. Here, AI agents role-play to direct calls to the correct department, demonstrating agentic task control and decision-making.
- You can explore a sophisticated example of multi-agent task flow management in ControlFlow with customer call routing:
ControlFlow Call Routing Example.
Hope this helps you navigate both Prefect and ControlFlow! And as Marvin might say, "Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to fetch docs..." but at least these should make your tasks a bit easier!