can prefect core alone be used in production syste...
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bardovv
03/20/2020, 12:58 PMcan prefect core alone be used in production systems?
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Scott Zelenka
03/20/2020, 1:38 PMWe'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.
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Adam Roderick
03/20/2020, 3:19 PM"accidental production" 🙂
I second what @Scott Zelenka said.
Adam Roderick
03/20/2020, 3:20 PMWe 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
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bardovv
03/22/2020, 3:27 PMso @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
03/22/2020, 3:33 PMAre you'll using prefect core with dagster UI?
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Adam Roderick
03/23/2020, 1:50 PMNo, we started with prefect core and that allowed us to prove that it works for our needs.
Adam Roderick
03/23/2020, 1:50 PMPrefect Cloud was a decision we made later
Adam Roderick
03/23/2020, 1:51 PMI 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
03/23/2020, 1:51 PMWe evaluated dagster, but we decided against it
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