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by gumoro 3395 days ago
I work on such a system, to organize data processing (HPC) projects in the oil & gas industry, and I try to follow this space. I remember I got excited when I heard of Airflow for the first time, but quickly got frustrated with its "static flow" nature: many "flow" systems are like this, you first design the flow, then "deploy" it and let it run (usually many times).

What our tool does is allow users to organize the flow of their processing jobs on an infinite 2D layout, have some jobs run at the beginning of the flow while they organize another part to run later.

Unfortunately it's a big pile of messy code that depends too much on other "internal" systems so we can't open source it... I'd like to add "yet" because I try to gradually clean it up, simplify and make it more generic, but I'm not sure I'll see that day myself.

In the meantime... maybe Node-RED ? https://nodered.org/