Prefect

@prefect.io

Modern workflow orchestration for data and ML engineers. Website: https://prefect.io Code: https://github.com/prefecthq/prefect Slack: https://prefect.io/slack

C is for Context. And that's not good enough for most people. "Context" gets confusing fast. Context window, context engineering, model context, server context... one word doing a dozen jobs. So we gave it a whole episode. @jlowin.dev and Radhika pull the meanings apart, one at a time. Link Below.

The DAG is dead. Long live the DAG. Same name, new job. The old workflow graph cared about how work got done. @jlowin.dev take at PyData London: graph the outcome. Stop auditing the loop and audit what falls out of it. Full keynote talk from PyData London below ⤵️

Running MCP with no gateway? Crazy. Running across the Grand Canyon and back? Somehow less crazy?! Fokke Dekker and Zach Angell talk Prefect Horizon, our enterprise MCP gateway, on Prefect's annual morning run before all-hands. Get a secure MCP server URL, free. Link Below →

We're in a new season of the FastMCP Pod and we're calling it Summer School. Everyone says "MCP gateway." Almost no one means the same thing by it. So we're going back to class. Jeremiah Lowin @jlowin.dev and Radhika Gulati get into what it actually is. Full Class recording in the comments ⤵️

New headshots from the Prefect team, dropping today. Scientists call it the Pre-effect: a glow-up that kicks in once you join. Cause: immediate exposure to workflow automation. Effect? Undeniable.

Friends don't let friends re-run unchanged SQL. It’s Day 2 of launch week and today we're launching the Prefect dbt Orchestrator. Every model, seed, test, and snapshot runs as a Prefect task. Caching, per-node retries, and the same alerting your other Prefect work uses.

We are taking @ to the next level. Day 1 of Launch Week is here, and we’re kicking things off with Infrastructure Decorators. Assign infrastructure directly in code, so each workflow runs on the compute it actually needs.

Tip: if you use a package from GitHub heavily, you can subscribe to find out about new releases (but not get overwhelmed by other notifs). I just did that for FastMCP since their releases are always chock full of new features. (Also I love their punny release titles)

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New Episode of chatting with Prefect's Builders - @jlowin.dev chats with with @aaazzam.bsky.social about FastMCP's path from weekend project to the most popular open source thing we've built. Also: why "automation" is a better word than "orchestration." Hope you get outside today. Link below.

New podcast episode on MCP apps and what we're learning as this unfolds. The interesting question is where this goes next. We're recording these knowing things will shift and that's the point. Figure it out in public, see what sticks. Link below.

FastMCP 3.0 is here! This is our largest and most ambitious release ever. We've re-architected the framework to support the next generation of MCP applications. It's time to move fast and make things. 🧵

Py AI DC brought out a phenomenal crowd last night, proof that the DC Python community is building the future of AI one meetup at a time. That's why we couldn't resist showing them Prefect ███████. This community got the first look before we let it loose on the world next week.

Travis Hoppe • Acting Chief AI Officer @ the CDC rounds out our guest speakers for our sold out Py AI DC. March 10 in SF: Py AI Conference is the big one. Only 300 spots to hear top-tier Python + AI speakers. The kind of lineup you book flights for. Both links in comments below.

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The Py AI series is all about short talks, honest demos and real conversation. No one's selling you anything - just ideas you can take back to your project next day. Banjo Obayomi • @banjtheman.bsky.social • Senior Specialist Solutions Architect GenAI @ AWS joins us for Py AI DC.

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Co-hosted with @pydantic.dev, Py AI is where people building with Python and AI actually talk about what they're working on. SF, NYC, London. Now it's DC's turn. Roni Kobrosly, Ph.D. • Director of Data Science @ Capital One kicks things off. More details dropping soon. RSVP in the comments.

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