can prefect core alone be used in production systems

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Scott Zelenka · Answer

We ve used it for 6 months in accidental production As long as your flows don t change that often and you don t need easy observability into flow execution or failure it works great Perfect Cloud is great for orchestrating the flows versioning and visibility into how heathy they are

Adam Roderick · Answer

accidental production slightly smiling face I second what < Scott Zelenka> said

Adam Roderick · Answer

We started with Prefect Core to prove out that it is the right workflow tool for us Once we proved that and started thinking about orchestration versioning logging troubleshooting scheduling all that stuff and the time it would take us to build it Prefect Cloud became a pretty easy decision

bardovv · Answer

so < Adam Roderick> you ll are just using prefect core only from what I am understanding Also I wanted to know how can you have workflow s within a workflow in prefect I couldn t find some examples on it and how would you parallelize your tasks in prefect

bardovv · Answer

Are you ll using prefect core with dagster UI

Adam Roderick · Answer

No we started with prefect core and that allowed us to prove that it works for our needs

Adam Roderick · Answer

Prefect Cloud was a decision we made later

Adam Roderick · Answer

I believe there are people running workflows from within workflows but we are not one of them Parallelization of tasks is supported and we do that in our workflows

Adam Roderick · Answer

We evaluated dagster but we decided against it