When building and deploying Apache Beam pipelines, you often need to include external runtime dependencies that your pipeline code relies on. It’s crucial to ensure these dependencies are available to the workers as soon as they start up, even before any processing begins.

This blog post explores the various methods and best practices for managing and loading dependencies during worker initialization in Apache Beam on Dataflow.

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Would Tony Stark be an exception then?