What Not to Automate
Lucy Wyman
I'm a software engineer for Puppet, where I'm currently working on our open source remote task runner Bolt. I graduated from Oregon State University with a BS in Computer Science in June 2016, where I worked as a Front-End Engineer for the OSU Open Source Lab. In my free time I enjoy hanging out with friends, hiking, experiencing new things, and enjoying a wide variety of podcasts, tv shows, blogs, books, and other media.
You can see more of my work at http://lucywyman.me and http://github.com/lucywyman See conference presentations I've given at http://slides.lucywyman.me Or read my thoughts at http://blog.lucywyman.me
During a talk at DevOps Days Seattle the speaker stated "Automate as much as you can". While this seems like an obvious statement at first blush, on further inspection there are a number of exceptions to this rule, begging the question: What shouldn't I automate? This talk will give you a framework for deciding whether something is worth automating. We'll discuss:
- The return on investment of time to automate
- The ethical considerations of automating particular tasks, such as hiring
- Things that require humans intervention
- And more!
We'll consider this question through the lens of economics, business, ethics, and psychology to explore the wide world of automation and it's consequences.
- Date:
- 2018 November 10 - 10:45
- Duration:
- 50 min
- Room:
- Room 3178
- Conference:
- Seattle GNU/Linux Conference 2018
- Language:
- Track:
- Something different
- Difficulty:
- No experience required
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