The vast scale of the universe is a fascinating thing. Unfortunately most of it is quite far away and therefore hard to reach or even see with our blank eye. Fortunately for science and us, we invented tools that allows us to perceive things that are outside of our range of perception. For example high precision scales measure/perceive weight differences of objects by several orders of magnitudes better than a human ever could.

The current state of CI pipeline definition files Currently most generic CI systems (for example GitHub Actions or GitLab CI) let their users design pipelines in a single or multiple yaml files. This is fine for project tailored CI pipelines, because most steps are probably really project specific. These specific pipeline definition files can get really long without necessarily describing complex pipelines. Many of these pipelines execute the same step with different parameters, this can lead to a lot of duplicate code.