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Staying current can be challenging when there is so much to do daily. Whether critical infrastructure for a million-dollar business or an open-source library you work on on the weekend, it is difficult to find the time to update every little package in your dependency tree. The state of neglect worsens when multiple people are on a project, and the need for updating becomes a tragedy of the commons because when something is everyone’s responsibility, it is also no one’s.

Eventually, our dependencies might get so out of date that a large, risky, and heroic effort is needed to bring the codebase back into the modern era. Brave developers will have to grind away late at night and, in severe cases, miss deadlines because the problem was allowed to metastasize.

An excellent solution to this problem is using automation to manage daily incremental updates. This approach ensures that every deployment is as low-risk as possible.

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