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Eliminating Tedious Manual Work
A chapter in the SRE book defines 'toil' as manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical, and temporary tasks associated with operating production systems that increase proportionally with system growth. Google Site Reliability Engineers aim to dedicate at least half their time to engineering projects, avoiding toil to prevent burnout and career stagnation. The author categorizes SRE tasks and argues that while a small amount of toil might be acceptable, excessive toil negatively impacts morale and output.
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