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Site Reliability Engineering – Eliminating Toil

May 9, 2022
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ANECDOTE

Manual On-Call List

  • Michael Outlaw describes a toil example involving a team's on-call rotation.
  • The system they use makes it difficult to see who's on call, requiring manual screenshots.
ANECDOTE

WordPress Updates

  • Allen Underwood shares an anecdote about WordPress site updates as an example of toil.
  • Manually updating each site and its plugins is repetitive and automatable.
ADVICE

Automate Repetitive Tasks

  • Automate repetitive, manual tasks whenever possible.
  • Human judgment tasks like code reviews are exceptions to this rule.
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