In the world of software development, YAML has long been a go-to solution for configuration management. But as projects grow, YAML configurations can become unwieldy, leading to frustration, decreased productivity, and significant risk with configuration changes.

This session challenges the status quo by exploring alternative tools and approaches that allow developers to accomplish common tasks without touching YAML. We'll cover a range of scenarios, including:
* Setting up local development environments
* Configuring Spring applications with the type-safe Pkl language
* Writing maintainable CI pipelines
* Configuring cloud resources

After this session you’ll have enough inspiration to change your ways of configuring systems, and enough courage to throw away your yaml-ruler.