Prefect was seemless to setup and to operate. The documentation is clear, the team is super helpful and it's moving in the right direction. As a Data Scientist, I can focus on improving my models and tweaking my optimization logic. Prefect takes care of data, training and inference pipelines. I am getting notified in case of problems. I also like that it's cloud provider agnostic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's still a young(er) tool, which had some bigger, breaking changes during the last year. This is causing quite some extra dev work. I hope they are done with those big changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We need to queue jobs for agents running in various clouds and see their run status and logs. Prefect brings all of that together for us. Because our jobs are often long running, we haven't been able to use most of the jobs and runners tools already out there, so we appreciate the flexibility of Prefect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's complex, and I always worry about learning a complex propriety tool. It helps it's open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been using Prefect for some time now, and I must say that it has truly revolutionized the way I manage and orchestrate data workflows. What I like best about Prefect is its exceptional flexibility and ease of use. Creating workflows is simple as it can ever be which reduces manual efforts to defining state as a separate component for orchestration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Prefect offers many advantages, there are a few areas where it could see some improvement: I’ve noticed a steep learning curve for building pipelines using best practices. However, with such a growing community, I think this wouldn’t be a problem in the upcoming days. Another one I’ve experience is the resource usage when dealing with complex workflows. Users may need to carefully manage resource allocation to avoid any unexpected costs. But this is common across all other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool requires 1/10th the setup time as Airflow, and provides near parity in functionally. After briefly reading the (very good) documentation to get the terminology, the concepts are clear and well defined. The Perfect team is very responsive to feedback, and the gaps in functionally are shrinking constantly. Frequent updates, while making sure not to break backwards compatibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While the rapid pace of change is great, it can be hard to keep up with the latest versioning. Some complementary packages like prefect-azure may go much longer without an update than the base prefect package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prefect has well maintained documentation and a helpful community willing to advise and assist people new to ETL and Data Orchestrations. Prefect cares about their user interface and it shows. I really enjoy working with the UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prefect is always working on new features/releases. So, it can be a bit overwhelming to keep up to date with all the useful features they release. The feature tutorials usually cover the fundamental uses. It would be nice to have some tutorials that cover more "complex" uses to contrast against. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prefect is intuitive to use and has a phenomenal Python SDK which makes integration extremely easy. For those looking to setup complex development workflows in Python, Prefect is the ideal solution. Moreover, their Marvin library has been instrumental in helping us build and ship quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation is still a work in progress, and this can sometimes become a bit of a hindrance in development. Thankfully, the Prefect slack & discord communities are quite active Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prefect is a like an air traffic controller for your data. Prefect supports the likes of Amazon, Databricks, and Adobe that I use on a daily basis. The availability of prebuilt flows and infrastructure blocks like git, Docker, and ECS, not only saves time but also make it easier to deploy containers locally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of Intuitive UI on Prefect Cloud. Could be overwhelming to new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love perfect because it allows me to write my code the way I want with it's pythonic syntax and how easy it is to turn a function into flow or a task. It's also very flexible, easy to set up and start, easy to deploy, and it allows you to see your pipelines visually.

Let's not forget it concurrency support, amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I tried deploying my pipeline on namecheap and it wasn't easy. I didn't want to pay for hosting my pipeline separately. Maybe having a tutorial on deploying on such platform will be nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most valuable aspect of Prefect is its ability to create task chains that execute sequentially and only if the previous ones are successful. Prefect is the first orchestrator I have used, and I am really enjoying it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The least useful aspect of Prefect in my opinion is the creation of additional execution queues in the worker pools, as I personally rarely use it and don't see many use cases for it. However, this is my subjective experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been around the ETL block a few times, played with plenty of orchestration tools, and let's just say... not all of them made the cut. But Prefect? Game changer.

Why I’m seriously digging Prefect:

Keep it Simple: While some tools feel like you need a Ph.D. to figure out, Prefect is refreshingly straightforward. Setting it up? Smooth. Integrating it? Seamless.

Pure Python Love: Being Python-native feels like Prefect was made for us. Those decorators? It’s like writing poetry, but the kind that transforms data.

Crisp & Clean: The modern approach of Prefect ensures you’re not dealing with messy, convoluted code. Every line feels intentional and easy to follow.

To wrap it up, if you’re in the ETL world and haven’t given Prefect a shot, I'd say it’s high time you do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Prefect might present an initial challenge to some users, its overall capabilities, modern approach, and efficiency make it a tool worthy of consideration and integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.