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Your deploy failed: the build pulled in a new minor version of a transitive dependency, and it broke the API. How would you set up dependency and environment management so this doesn't happen again?

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This checks whether you understand the difference between declared dependencies and a pinned tree, whether you can make the build reproducible (a lock file, transitive dependencies, installing strictly from the lock in CI/Docker), and whether you can do that without freezing on old versions.

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