CHAPTER 1Introducing the Basics ofAutomation
When one of this book's authors was in high school, he got his first part-time job keeping some of the school's computers running. He loved it. He did everything by hand. And because the school had only two or three computers, doing everything by hand wasn't a big issue. But even then, as the number of systems grew to five, six, and finally more than ten, he realized just how much time you can spend doing the same things over and over again. This is how his love of automation was born.
This book's other author found automation through necessity as well, although later in his career. During the so-called "tech downturn" around the year 2003 in Silicon Valley, he suddenly found himself the sole member ...
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