Every ops team has some manual procedures that they haven’t gotten around to automating yet. Toil can never be totally eliminated. Very often, the biggest toil center for a team at a growing …
They kind of glossed over the real value, which is using it as a template to automate a step at a time:
“Each step of the procedure is now encapsulated in a function, which makes it possible to replace the text in any given step with code that performs the action automatically.”
It breaks the work down into more manageable tasks. I probably wouldn’t give it to users until it was done, but putting placeholder functions is a common strategy.
They kind of glossed over the real value, which is using it as a template to automate a step at a time:
“Each step of the procedure is now encapsulated in a function, which makes it possible to replace the text in any given step with code that performs the action automatically.”
It breaks the work down into more manageable tasks. I probably wouldn’t give it to users until it was done, but putting placeholder functions is a common strategy.