2025-08-26 –, Potter Auditorium - Kenneth C Rowe Management Building
In the course of your day as a DevOps/SRE/Developer/SysAdmin/etc, your knowledge and expertise are in high demand. You can’t do every task every person in your org needs from you without the help of comprehensive automation.
Automation can be tricky. Some systems aren’t built with automation in mind, but assume that a human being will be there to keep an eye on things and fix errors on the fly, and we can’t be everywhere when there’s too much to do.
Plus, you want to provide access to automation for the right folks and keep a record of when the tools were used.
In this talk, we’ll cover some things to keep in mind when you’re building out your automation library, characteristics of good automation, and what to look for in a platform that will help you share your expertise with other folks in your organization.
Build automation that works for you and gives you your time back!
Mandi Walls is a DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty. For PagerDuty, she helps technology organizations increase their effectiveness with modern IT practices and unplanned incidents. She is a regular speaker at technical conferences when she isn’t podcasting, streaming, or writing about PagerDuty. She is interested in the emergence of new tools and workflows to make the task of operating large complex computing systems more approachable.