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Hi all, is there a best practice to prevent race conditions between flows?

If a flow must finish before the other, they should be subflows. These run sequentially inside a parent flow. (This allows data passing but you don't have to use it). <https://docs.prefect.io/concepts/flows/#composing-flows>

Or, tasks have a `wait_for` parameter .. i'm still learning about this. I'm guessing this param only matters when you use a parallel Task runner. (somebody else please confirm). <https://docs.prefect.io/concepts/task-runners/#task-runner-overview| The default behavior for tasks is the same as flow - blocking, and are run sequentially> (so you don't actually need wait_for) :slightly_smiling_face:
<https://docs.prefect.io/concepts/tasks/#wait-for>

<https://discourse.prefect.io/t/are-there-any-guidelines-when-to-use-flow-vs-task-decorator-which-part-of-my-workflow-should-be-defined-at-a-task-subflow-vs-flow-level/522|https://discourse.prefect.io/t/are-there-any-guidelines-when-to-use-flow-vs-task-decora[…]flow-should-be-defined-at-a-task-subflow-vs-flow-level/522>

Good luck!