> What would you go with instead for collaborative notebooks?
Production workloads should be code. In source control. Like everybody else.
Notebooks inevitably degrade into confusing, messy blocks of “maybe applicable, maybe not” text, old results and plots embedded in the file because nobody stripped them before committing and comments like “don’t run cells below here”.
They’re acceptable only as a prototyping and exploration tool. Unfortunately, whole “generation” of data scientists and engineers have been trained to basically only use notebooks.
Production workloads should be code. In source control. Like everybody else.
Notebooks inevitably degrade into confusing, messy blocks of “maybe applicable, maybe not” text, old results and plots embedded in the file because nobody stripped them before committing and comments like “don’t run cells below here”.
They’re acceptable only as a prototyping and exploration tool. Unfortunately, whole “generation” of data scientists and engineers have been trained to basically only use notebooks.