Prefect Foundations

Beginner
5 challengesUpdated Dec 2025

Everything 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.

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