Automation Is Hard & We Are Doing It Wrong
summary
Claims that automation is a prerequisite for scale, not a luxury, backed by Accelerate data showing more than half of elite teams use automated builds and unit tests and automate deploys; shows a real repo where a bot opens a dependency PR, CI validates and auto-merges it, then posts a thumbs-up GIF. Advises treating automation as production software: keep it in version control, write tests, document, monitor progress, add circuit breakers, make actions idempotent and expect short-term extra work before long-term velocity gains.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:45What is DevOps?
- 5:56Organizations are wrong about automation
- 8:05Prerequisite for scale
- 11:05What do we automate?
- 19:05Is automation complex?
- 23:39Automation is software
- 30:55We do automation initiatives wrong
- 36:20Key takeaways
- 37:12Outro
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