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Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Jeremiah Lowin (@jlowin) discuss Prefect, a workflow management system and data orchestration tool under development as an open-source project. Jeremiah initially created Prefect to solve a technical challenge specific to his own work, but soon realized that it was appealing to a very wide range of different clients. Listen to today\u2019s episode to learn why Jeremiah believes most attempts to build a unified framework for solving data orchestration fail.

In this episode we discuss:

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• Solving the \u201cnegative engineering problem\u201d
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• Learning from the complaints of data engineers at Apache Airflow
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• The difficulty of having a product that serves two masters
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• How COVID changed the direction of Prefect
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Links:

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• Prefect
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• Apache Airflow
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• Why Not Airflow?
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People mentioned:

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• Jim O'Shaughnessy (@jposhaughnessy)
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• Patrick O\u2019Shaughnessy (@patrick_oshag)
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