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Task Design Patterns

This section is a collection of common design patterns (and anti-patterns) for Ray tasks. It is meant as a handbook for both:

• New users trying to understand how to get started with Ray, and

• Advanced users trying to optimize their use of Ray tasks

You may also be interested in visiting the design patterns section for actors.

• Pattern: Tree of tasks
  • Example use case
  • Code example
• Pattern: Map and reduce
  • Example use case
  • Code examples
• Antipattern: Closure capture of large / unserializable object
  • Code example
• Antipattern: Accessing Global Variable in Tasks/Actors
  • Code example
  • Notes
• Antipattern: Fetching too many results at once with ray.get
  • Code example

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