u/Helloimlost_

My org is considering introducing Prefect for orchestration instead of Airflow because our current scale probably doesn’t justify the operational overhead of Airflow yet.

From a data engineering career perspective, is deeply learning Prefect (DAGs, retries, dependencies, validations, observability, backfills, etc.) enough to transition smoothly later into Airflow/Azure/cloud DE stacks?

Or does not working directly with Airflow early on become a disadvantage when switching roles later?

Would love perspectives from people who’ve made that transition.