Challenges in Managing Processes in the Real World
We have learned about how to create a task and break it into a multi-stage process. Knowing how to do these two things should be enough to create a functioning data pipeline. But when it comes to managing a data pipeline, there's another important thing to know about: job automation. Imagine that someone updated a source CSV file with the most recent data in the workflow illustrated in Figure 9.01. Someone would need to jump in to manually rerun the entire workflow and deploy a new version of the model.
Automation
To ease the burden of managing hundreds of workflows in a company, we want workflows to be fully automated without any extensive human interaction. If any change happens to one step, it should automatically trigger downstream steps to rerun with the new change. In addition to workflow automation, it'd be nice if we could version each run of the workflow so that we could perform retrospective analysis in the...