This post was first published on the Prefect Guide and was later the focus of Prefect Live. For as long as we’ve been recording data with computers, we’ve been automating processes to handle that data. Basic, decades-old dataflow automation concepts …

The language of technology is notoriously ambiguous, ridden with buzzwords and jargon. Specific technologies and general technical concepts rise and fall in relevance and perceived value with such frequency that the phenomenon has its own moniker, the hype cycle. Over the past …

It’s been nearly a decade since Marc Andreessen coined the phrase Software Is Eating the World to describe a phenomenon that was already well underway: More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online …

“Product” and “service” mean different things in different contexts. My frame of reference is business to business (B2B) software, where the distinction between products and services can be blurry. Software that is packaged and billed via a license or subscription (SaaS) model …