Listen "Prefect with Jeremiah Lowin"
Episode Synopsis
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Jeremiah Lowin (@jlowin) discuss Prefect, a workflow management system and data orchestration tool under development as an open-source project. Jeremiah initially created Prefect to solve a technical challenge specific to his own work, but soon realized that it was appealing to a very wide range of different clients. Listen to today’s episode to learn why Jeremiah believes most attempts to build a unified framework for solving data orchestration fail.
In this episode we discuss:
Solving the “negative engineering problem”
Learning from the complaints of data engineers at Apache Airflow
The difficulty of having a product that serves two masters
How COVID changed the direction of Prefect
Links:
Prefect
Apache Airflow
Why Not Airflow?
People mentioned:
Jim O'Shaughnessy (@jposhaughnessy)
Patrick O’Shaughnessy (@patrick_oshag)
In this episode we discuss:
Solving the “negative engineering problem”
Learning from the complaints of data engineers at Apache Airflow
The difficulty of having a product that serves two masters
How COVID changed the direction of Prefect
Links:
Prefect
Apache Airflow
Why Not Airflow?
People mentioned:
Jim O'Shaughnessy (@jposhaughnessy)
Patrick O’Shaughnessy (@patrick_oshag)
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