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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 08:56:08 JST silverwizard

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   • Merry Jerry 🎄🎅🕎⛄️❄️
   • spmatich :blobcoffee:
   • Simon Frankau
   • Billy O'Neal
   @sgf @spmatich @malwareminigun @jerry a massive mistake SREs make is to automate something that will only happen rarely, and every time it happens, someone will need to babysit it
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     Simon Frankau (sgf@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 08:56:09 JST Simon Frankau

     • Merry Jerry 🎄🎅🕎⛄️❄️
     • spmatich :blobcoffee:
     • Billy O'Neal

     @malwareminigun @spmatich @jerry Not everything's worth automating, but ppl tend to under- rather than over-automate.

     As an SRE, a surprising amount of value comes from looking at what the devs still do by hand and going "Really?!" until they're embarrassed.

     It's best if adding automation helps put simple, programmatic interfaces on everything. This not only helps with future automation, but general scripting.

     If you don't have that kind of environment, it can be miserable and unprofitable.