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by rtpg 429 days ago
I'm not against this notebook style, I have runbooks in Jupyter notebooks.

I just think it's pretty easy to do things like start a flow back up halfway through the book and not fix some underlying ordering issues.

With scripts that you tend to have to run top to bottom you end up having to be more diligent with making sure the initial steps are still OK because on every test you tend to run everything. Notebook style environments favor running things piecemeal. Also very helpful! It introduces a much smaller problem in the process of solving the larger issue of making it easier to do this kind of work in the first place.