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Becoming a Rockstar SRE
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Becoming a Rockstar SRE

by Jeremy Proffitt, Rod Anami L. Anami
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 56m
English
Packt Publishing
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Valued Automation – Toil Discovery and Elimination

In recent years, enterprises of all sizes have funded their business process automation projects. Although the reasons for such investments are decreasing operational costs (CapEx and OpEx) and gaining agility, often the approach adopted for that effort has not been fruitful. A similar situation is found in IT operational work automation, where manual and repetitive tasks are still necessary to keep systems running. Such chores increase the likelihood of error and consume the precious time of engineering teams. Site reliability engineers (SREs) have a special relationship with automation because of how it affects reliability.

An essential step in site reliability engineering adoption is automating ...

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