Stop using plain Python scripts (do this instead)

Sign up for the totally free tier of Prefect Cloud here: https://prefec.tv/doug-mercer ————————————————————————————————————————— Sign up for 1-on-1 coaching at https://dougmercer.dev ————————————————————————————————————————— One of the most frustrating parts of the workday is doing something that you know could be automated, but just… isn’t yet. In this video, we use Prefect to schedule a Python script to run every week. After, we find that scheduling was really only the first of five problems, and we use Prefect to solve all of them. You'll learn how just one Python library, Prefect, and a few minor changes to your code can allow you to: - Schedule your Python Script to run on local or remote systems - Handle Errors with Retries - Monitor your workflows in an incredibly powerful web-based UI - Parallelize and scale your code's using on-prem compute clusters or Cloud platforms - Persist Python results and Markdown reports - and more... Prefect changed the way that our data science and machine learning focused research team approached scripting. Chapters --------------- 00:00 Intro 01:38 I want to take Monday off 03:28 I don’t want to babysit code 06:35 No one knows what’s going on 10:33 My code is embarrassingly slow 12:41 I keep throwing away our data 13:47 Wrap-Up Special thanks to Siara M. for making artwork used in the intro sequence. #python #prefect #scheduling #scripting #mlops