For early-stage open-source projects, the “Getting started” guide is often the first real interaction a developer has with the project. If a command fails, an output doesn’t match, or a step is unclear, most users won’t file a bug report, they will just move on. Drasi , a CNCF sandbox project that detects changes in your data and triggers immediate reactions, is supported by our small team of four engineers in Microsoft Azure’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer. We have comprehensive tutorials, but we are shipping code faster than we can manually test them. The team didn’t realize how big this gap was until late 2025, when GitHub updated its Dev Container infrastructure, bumping the minimum Docker version. The update broke the Docker daemon connection, and every single tutorial stopped working. Because we relied on manual testing, we didn’t immediately know the extent of the damage. Any developer trying Drasi during that window would have hit a wall.…