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 - **Multi-Tenant Data Pipelines**
 
 Dispatch differs from alternative solutions by allowing developers top write
-simple Python code as if it was a local application: it has a **minimal API
-footprint**, which usually only requires using a function decorator (no complex
-framework to learn), failure recovery is built-in by default for transient
-errors like rate limits or timeouts, with a **zero-configuration** model.
+simple Python code: it has a **minimal API footprint**, which usually only
+requires using a function decorator (no complex framework to learn), failure
+recovery is built-in by default for transient errors like rate limits or
+timeouts, with a **zero-configuration** model.
 
 To interact with the Dispatch scheduler, the client SDK uses this module to
 generate [connectrpc][connectrpc] or [gRPC][grpc] clients and servers.