Case Study: Flatiron Health reduces incident resolution from days to minutes with Prefect

Flatiron Health cuts incident resolution from days to minutes with Prefect

Flatiron Health, a health technology company focused on cancer care, faced a fundamental scaling problem with its data generation platform. Each new research project required dedicated engineering resources to build custom data pipelines using an internal framework, leading to an explosion of difficult-to-manage workflows. This created an engineering bottleneck, limited visibility for non-technical team members, and made business logic reuse challenging. The company evaluated several options before choosing Prefect to solve their orchestration needs.

By implementing Prefect, Flatiron Health built a service called Maestro that uses Prefect Cloud as its engine to orchestrate massive-scale data pipelines. The solution eliminated the engineering bottleneck, saving significant engineering and data team resources. Prefect reduced incident resolution time from days to minutes and enabled non-technical product managers to independently identify issues and manage pipeline operations. The Python-native approach provided a simple yet powerful developer experience while maintaining the strict security and compliance required for handling patient data.

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