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Directed Acyclic Graph
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**Audience:** Users coming from MLOps to Lightning Apps, looking for more flexibility.

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Is Lightning a DAG framework?
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No.

A Lightning App enables developers to express complex, interactive applications that are impossible to create with DAGs.

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Can I Build a DAG with Lightning?
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Yes!

DAGs are one of the easiest Lightning Apps to build. For example, here's a :doc:`full app that defines a DAG <../examples/dag/dag>`.

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Examples
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   :header: Build a DAG
   :description: Learn how to create a DAG with Lightning
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   :button_link: ../examples/dag/dag.html
   :height: 180
   :tag: Intermediate

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