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by sandGorgon 2428 days ago
Could you talk about Prefect ? we are in the process of moving from Spark to Dask. I have never heard of prefect. what do you use it for ?
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tl;dr we use it for a similar set of tasks that one would use Airflow for.

Unlike Airflow, this lends itself to microbatching and streaming. Plus a bunch of housekeeping items ticked off that Airflow never got around to. With a bit of devops engineering time, you can have perfect manage the size of your worker cluster on k8s and scale it up/down with ingest demand, etc.

I'll say one thing though. The Perfect website used to be a lot more technical and explicit about what it is and isn't. Now it's mostly sales gobbledegook. Maybe not a good sign. I've seen this happen before with dremio.

This is super interesting!

Do you run dask on k8s ? I have been concerned that dask does not leverage kubernetes HPA for autoscaling...but instead chooses to run an external scheduler.

How has your experience been ?