No matter how amazing a job is, everyone has to hit a mental "hard reset" to log back in the morning of January 2nd. And what might you find when you do this?
A slew of errors coming from your pipelines in Slack. And so it begins: curing the workflow hangover.
Here's a recap of what we added to Prefect in 2023 that can make you more efficient.
In 2023, you get a more efficient way to triage workflows.
When you see the dreaded red alarm Slack alert, there's only one question to answer: what happened and why? You need context - enter the Prefect dashboard.
You're most desperate for information from Prefect when execs are pounding on your door about stale data. What you need at your finger tips:
Even if it's just one task in a flow failing, all downstream tasks will be off. Getting to the bottom of who's affected by an error means a clear view of dependencies that adapt per run as your data changes.
It's easier to get something right the first time - particularly when productionizing - than to do it over again.
In 2023, we really took this mantra to heart by provisioning infrastructure.
After you write code, you need to quickly:
A question remains, to operate lean: how can you spin up infrastructure only when it's needed?
If there's no data to update, you don't need to run your workflow. Your finance team doesn't need another reason to be on your back about your cloud bill.
Sometimes the minimum viable schedule is no schedule at all.
In 2023, we brought you: events, automations, and webhooks.
Run a workflow only when something actually happens. An event driven pipeline:
And those were only the highlights of what Prefect shipped in 2023.
Let's get stoked for 2024.
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