Ask HN: What is the simplest data orchestration tool you've worked with?

Re:Ask HN: What is the simplest data orchestration tool you'... by cicdw on Friday March 21, 2025 @05:18PM (#43440917)

One of the goals of Prefect's SDK is to be minimally invasive from a code-standpoint (in the simplest case you only need two lines to convert a script to a `flow`). Our deployment model also makes infrastructure job config a first-class citizen so you might have a good time trying it out. (disclosure: work at Prefect)

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Re:Ask HN: What is the simplest data orchestration tool you'... by aradox66 on Friday March 21, 2025 @08:51PM (#43442305)

Love prefect! but for workflows involving concurrency, Prefect code needs to get somewhat invasive.

Prefect relies on prefect.task()-wrapped methods as the lowest granularity of concurrency in a program, and requires you to use the (somewhat immature) prefect task APIs to implement that concurrency.

more on this complaint here: https://austinweisgrau.github.io/migrating-to-prefect-part-3...

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Re:Ask HN: What is the simplest data orchestration tool you'... by cicdw on Friday March 21, 2025 @09:57PM (#43442599)

This is an excellent write up thank you for sharing! Yea, our concurrency API needs an upgrade - coincidentally this is going to be a theme of the next sprint or two so I hope I can report some improvements back soon.

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