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Site Reliability Engineering – Eliminating Toil

May 9, 2022
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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.
INSIGHT

Toil and Errors

  • Manual repetitive tasks increase the risk of errors, unlike automated ones.
  • Interruptions during manual tasks further amplify the likelihood of mistakes.
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