Burnout is possible in any industry. But it seems to be especially rampant in tech, a space bursting at the seams with inflated expectations and ever-accelerating trends. Nearly 60% of tech workers said they were currently feeling burned out at their workplace, found a study by TeamBlind. Limiting burnout and supporting employee mental health is […]
Let Me Reiterate – Don’t Rush to Iterate
We in the DevOps world spend an inordinate amount of time talking about tools and roles—and there are always new tools and modifications of roles to talk about. Do you know what we don’t discuss as an industry? The day-to-day grind of being in DevOps. Oh, you can go to forums like Reddit and have […]
Shedding Light On Toil: Ways Engineers Can Reduce Toil
It comes in many shapes and sizes and is embraced as a necessary evil. It lurks in the shadows, emerging now and again to stealthily creep into our workflows, where it feasts on our perceived shame. If not pruned, it grows and wraps its tendrils around the workforce, draining the energy out of every digital […]
5 Ways to Reduce DevOps Toil
Over the last several years, DevOps has become a bit of a buzzword. It has become simultaneously a practice, a culture, a team, a job title and a vendor product. You can hire some DevOps, buy some DevOps, adopt DevOps and sprinkle a little bit of DevOps on top for good measure. But, at its […]
Survey Reveals Slight Decline in Level of SRE Toil
The amount of routine toil that site reliability engineers (SREs) perform declined slightly in the last year even though IT environments in general are becoming more complex to manage. An annual survey of 300 SREs conducted by Catchpoint, a provider of an IT monitoring platform, in collaboration with VMware and the DevOps Institute suggests that […]