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07 Reliability and Operations

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01 Incident Management

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Toil

Toil

Feb 10, 20261 min read

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Toil

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Repetitive, manual, automatable operational work that scales linearly with service size and provides no enduring value. Toil is the enemy of engineering productivity. Identifying and eliminating toil frees teams to work on projects that improve reliability and reduce future toil.

Key Properties

  • Toil Identification
  • Toil Measurement
  • Toil Elimination Strategies

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