Ray Workflows Deprecated?

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Hi all,

I just saw the deprecation message for Ray Workflows, and was wondering if the feature was going to be replaced with something different or if AnyScale Turbo is expected to suffice?

From what I can tell, Workflows is a valuable addition to the ecosystem, but I’d like to bring that discussion to a larger audience.

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Yes, i want to know something to replace, any reason why being replaced

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Upon review of the latest codebase, it appears the features have moved to the ‘dag’ api.

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Hi all,

I understand that it is disappointing to see a feature deprecated, but to clarify a bit more:

  • We do not plan to replace this functionality. The Ray team is already at more than full capacity maintaining Ray and the other GA libraries, so we need to make some tough prioritization decisions in order to focus our efforts.
  • The functionality provided by Ray Workflows is not directly replaced by the Anyscale platform. The closest analogs to Ray Workflows are projects like Apache Airflow or Temporal. Note that both of these are large scale open source projects with companies behind them, highlighting the significant scope of building such an orchestration library. I recommend you check those out!
  • The DAG API you mentioned is only an API frontend. It was used for Ray Workflows but also for other parts of Ray, such as Compiled Graphs.

Hope that helps explain things.

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You can also check out flowdapt, which runs on Ray.