upstreamActivity
UpstreamActivity is a term used across disciplines to describe an activity or set of activities that occur earlier in a process and feed into downstream steps. In data engineering and workflow orchestration, an upstream activity is any job, task, or event that produces data or state consumed by a subsequent task. Examples include data ingestion jobs, extract-transform-load pipelines, or a database update that enables downstream analytics.
Within software development, upstream activity can refer to changes from upstream sources: pulling updates from an
In workflow systems, an activity object labeled upstreamActivity may indicate the source of inputs for the
Key considerations include dependency management, error propagation, idempotence, and versioning of upstream artifacts. Correctly identifying upstream