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Wednesday, August 29 • 14:00 - 14:50
The 7 Deadly Sins of Documentation

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Documentation can often be forgotten when it comes to the pillars of SRE practice; developing tools and new infrastructure has supremacy, and a constant sense of urgency leads to documentation being a "we'll get around to it later" task. Even in places where documentation is actually written, it's often done quickly or poorly in the first place, not maintained, or not organized in a way that makes it easy to use. This can impair onboarding, obfuscate problems, and impair incident response. But if done correctly, documentation can preserve institutional knowledge, streamline incident response, and allow new team members to quickly begin contributing. This talk will discuss the biggest problems surrounding creating, maintaining, and providing utility with documentation, and how to solve them.

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Chastity Blackwell

Yelp
Chastity Blackwell has worked in Operations for almost 20 years in a variety of environments, from the hallowed halls of the University of Illinois to a smaller startup, and now works for Yelp as an SRE. In addition, she has done work as a freelance writer and content developer for... Read More →


Wednesday August 29, 2018 14:00 - 14:50 CEST
1 - Rheinlandsaal Ballroom A