Is there a good way to design flows for restart after failure

[anna_geller]

@smartan007

Is there a way to disable the persistence of tasks results in 2.0 or remove persisted results systematically when they are no longer needed?

Not yet, but Michael starts working on it this week

Regarding restart, this conversation might be relevant for you too:

How can I restart a flow in Prefect 2.0?

yes - this is also best practice in data engineering to ensure your components are as self-contained and dependency-free as possible. Doing such check can even be something as simple as querying theMAX(LAST_UPDATED) timestamp field in your database, if you have that Another alternative is to leverage caching - assuming you run this every hour, if you would add caching with 1 h expiration, this will have exactly the effect you are looking for: successful tasks won’t be rerun, but those th…