AI engineering glossary · MLOps, LLMOps cloud
What is workflow orchestration?
Workflow orchestration: Software that schedules and runs multi-step jobs in the right order, handling dependencies, retries, failures and alerts. It is the control layer that runs data and ML pipelines reliably. Airflow, Prefect and Dagster are common examples.
Workflow orchestration: an example
An orchestrator runs extract, then feature building, then training, and retries the training step twice if a GPU node fails.
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Where you learn it
Workflow orchestration is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.