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Hands-On Python for DevOps
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Hands-On Python for DevOps

by Ankur Roy
March 2024
Intermediate to advanced
220 pages
5h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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7

Automating Tasks

The goal of the future is full unemployment. So that we can play.

– Arthur C Clarke

This is probably going to be my favorite chapter. Seriously, once you have drunk the sweet nectar of automation, you won’t look back. Well, I guess I’m getting ahead of myself. I will start with the concept of time. The only way you control your destiny, the way you live, and what you do is by controlling your own time, by choosing what you do. And to do that, you need to choose what it is that you do with your time.

All human advancement correlates to doing something in a way that requires fewer and fewer workers and continually decreased effort so that greater effort can then be applied elsewhere. All of this defines the concept of automation. ...

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