Dylan Etkin

Conf42: DevOps 2024

Developers, don't toil, Automate!

DevEx is about removing the suck, and the suck is toil, friction, and time-wasting in the day to day life of a developer. Toil is arguably worse than crisis, because a crisis is temporary and firefighting can feel rewarding when it’s over. Toil is more like a death march - an insidious force that eventually leads to burnout. Automations - guardrails, notifications, actions, or workflows - are...