Comment by alkonaut

What does this "automate updating of dependencies" mean? Is this something that happens in some ecosystem where updating things is so common that it needs to be automated? What ecosystem does it refer to? JS? Or is it more general? And what does it mean to update dependencies automatically and in real time? Does it mean for some web based products that you deploy versions with updated dependencies and immediately roll that out to production? What does it mean for other kinds of products (Maybe they don't have any)?