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Reproducibility

October 2, 2025

DEVELOPER

No More Yak-Shaving: Why Every Network Automation Project Needs a Versionable Dev Environment

12 min read

“Yak-shaving” is an informal term often used in the US and UK to describe a situation where you have to do a series of tedious, unrelated tasks before you can accomplish your actual goal. For example, if you want to write code but need to install missing libraries, then fix your container, then update your […]