Imagine this: You are days away from a release, and your Python codebase is versioned, tagged, and marked as a Release Candidate. Hours from the release, out of nowhere appears a BUG! You set up a War Room, dig through the logs and the code, the team is struggling…and then it hits you: A DEPENDENCY UPDATE!
A seemingly minor version bump in a library your code depends on, introduced a breaking change, causing your cautiously crafted codebase into disarray. This problem compounds itself when our project relies on multiple libraries which in turn have their own set of dependencies. In such cases, a single incompatible update can trigger an avalanche of conflicts leading to “Dependency Hell.”
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