Prefect Bought Dagster. Airflow Still Has More Stars Than Both Combined.
Prefect acquired Dagster this week. Combined GitHub stars and PyPI downloads for both still trail Apache Airflow alone. Here's what the deal actually changes.
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Dagster in 2026: The Orchestrator That Treats Data as the Product
Comprehensive Dagster analysis: pricing, asset-centric orchestration, AI/ML pipelines, learning curve, integrations, and why treating data as the product gives teams lineage and governance that task-centric orchestrators cannot match.