In your data engineering journey, you may have pipelines running locally inside your development environment, and it works beautifully, on your machine.

But what happens if you want to hand over a project to a colleague, deploy it to a shared server managed by your team leader, or push it to a cloud provider?

Suddenly, a storm of errors appears. Like...:

You don't have PostgreSQL 15 installed locally?"

"Your machine is running an older version of Python that doesn't support that syntax?"