Prefect Foundations
Beginner
5 challengesUpdated Apr 2026Everything you need to start orchestrating with Prefect. This track takes you from zero to deploying your first workflows - covering flows and tasks, error handling, observability, caching, and connecting to Prefect Cloud. By the end, you'll have the foundation to build reliable data pipelines that you can actually trust in production.
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Course Curriculum
01
Flows & Tasks
Getting Started with Prefect
02
Reliability & Observability
In this track, you'll learn how to transform fragile scripts into production-ready workflows that handle failures gracefully and provide clear visibility into what's happening.
03
Performance & Optimization
In this track, you'll learn how to optimize your Prefect workflows for maximum performance and efficiency. We'll focus on caching strategies and concurrency patterns that make your workflows lightning-fast.
04
Resilience & Patterns
In this track, you'll learn advanced patterns that make your workflows resilient, maintainable, and production-safe. We'll focus on conditional logic, modular design, and handling complex real-world scenarios.
05
Local Workers & Prefect Cloud
In this track, you'll learn how to connect your local development environment to Prefect Cloud, understand how local workers communicate with the cloud, and explore workspaces for proper environment management.