spb/tools-spboucher-ai

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Developers wrap ordinary Python functions with flow and task decorators; Prefect then records runs, handles retries, caching, concurrency limits and timeouts, and schedules deployments through work pools that run on local processes, Docker, Kubernetes or serverless infrastructure. Flows can be executed directly as scripts during development and promoted to scheduled deployments without rewriting, and the API server with its UI can be self-hosted or replaced by Prefect Cloud, which adds managed scheduling, automations, role-based access and a free tier.\n\nPrefect 3 emphasizes a lighter runtime, events and automations, and transactional semantics for task groups. The framework is appealing to Python-centric teams who want orchestration without a DAG DSL, and it integrates with dbt, Snowflake, AWS, GCP and Azure through collections. 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