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Virtual environments are useful when setting up a single machine, but many of the tools covered in the book do not directly support venv, such as Lambda functions, Cloud Dataflow, and Databricks. In general, the goal is to get readers to explore tools beyond Conda for setting up environments and dependencies.

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