A blog post showing how to get started with Prefect step-by-step.
Key points:
- discussing the problem that Prefect solves,
- creating tasks and flow,
- visualizing and running the flow locally,
- adding parameters,
- using Prefect CLI to run parametrized flows,
- registering the flow and a local agent to Prefect Cloud
- showing the difference between default and custom parameters,
- caching task inputs,
- persisting task run results via checkpointing,
- running dependent flows,
- scheduling and logging.