
SRE Philosophy with Jennifer Mace (Macey)
Google SRE Prodcast
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Toil Is Bad, It's a Tax on Your Time
An s ore will sometimes do manual steps if that's what's needed to maintain stability, but they will try as hard as they can to automate it or to improve the process so it's not needed. Any work you do to remove toil basically gives your team back that many engineer hours of a skilled laborer to put towards things which gain you permanent improvements. Is it possible that seres will eventually not have anything to do? It hasn't happened yet. We did this back in ads. We ran a lot of s plus fineries, and sometimes they would get crashy or like, oom. So i guess you could even say thatin the part where maybe you're getting
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