Toil Reduction & Automation Mindset

Summary

Toil is manual, repetitive operational work that doesn't add lasting value — SRE culture explicitly prioritizes automating toil away, freeing engineering time for higher-leverage reliability and platform work.

• 1List 3 recurring manual tasks from your own practice work and rank them by automation priority.
• 2Learn Google's SRE definition of toil and why it's tracked as a specific, minimized category of work.
• 3Practice automating one small recurring task from earlier phases of this roadmap.