Noob question: At first glance, Flyte and Metaflo...
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Noob question: At first glance, Flyte and Metaflow seem very similar to me. • Both use decorators to mark an isolated “step/task” in a DAG/flow. • Both use decorators to configure Kubernetes resource allocation parameters for said “steps/tasks.” In the materials I’ve digested, Metaflow augments: • the feature that anything committed to a class variable — i.e. self.model = … — becomes “versioned”/retained. • out-the-box “experiment-tracking”-esque visualizations. Or perhaps you could also say this as a differentiator: • Metaflow’s design and features are intended more for operational ML situations • Flyte’s design and features are intended more for general orchestration situations Okay, sorry for the verbosity, what am I getting right/wrong/missing? Hot takes welcome :)
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I don't feel qualified to comment on Flyte since I haven't used it seriously. In general there are many such systems that look similar on the surface (Prefect and Dagster have decorators too!) but there are major differences in UX/technical details and implementation. Hence it's a good idea to get a hands-on feel by yourself and focus on use cases and workloads that matter to you. Both Metaflow and Flyte have hosted free sandboxes, so getting a feel is pretty easy.
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