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Category: Technical Leadership: Runbooks

Parent categories: Technical Leadership

Learning from SRE Teams About Identifying and Reducing Repetitive Work

Tracking Toil using SRE principles - Eric Harvieux, Google Cloud Blog Writing Runbook Documentation when you’re an SRE - Taylor Barnett, Transposit “Toil is the kind of work that tends to be manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical, devoid of enduring value, and that scales linearly as a service grows.” These two articles came out in the same week, and they work very nicely together. One of the under-appreciated advantages commercial cloud organizations (or other large operations) have at scale isn’t about hardware - it’s that they...

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