[Verse 1] There's a hidden weight that's crushing DevOps teams Manual tasks that multiply beyond their dreams Rotating secrets by hand every single week Running the same scripts when deployments peak Provisioning environments one by one Alerts keep firing but the work's never done [Chorus] It's the toil variable, the load that scales up high Manual repetitive work that makes your ratios lie Fifty percent's the target, but we're running ninety Toil variable, toil variable, automate to fly The most important metric that the managers deny Toil variable, toil variable, reduce it and you'll fly [Verse 2] Google's SRE team has made the science clear Toil grows linear as your services appear One small dev team can generate massive demand When every task requires a human hand But flip the script and automate away The same team's capacity grows day by day [Chorus] It's the toil variable, the load that scales up high Manual repetitive work that makes your ratios lie Fifty percent's the target, but we're running ninety Toil variable, toil variable, automate to fly The most important metric that the managers deny Toil variable, toil variable, reduce it and you'll fly [Bridge] Don't hire more people, that's not the solution Invest in automation, start the revolution Compounding returns when you reduce the grind Free up human judgment, free up human mind [Verse 3] Manual repetitive automatable work Behind every breakdown, toil's where problems lurk Triaging alerts that need no human thought Scaling with service size, efficiency for naught Transform your practice from reactive to proactive Make your DevOps capacity truly attractive [Chorus] It's the toil variable, the load that scales up high Manual repetitive work that makes your ratios lie Fifty percent's the target, but we're running ninety Toil variable, toil variable, automate to fly The most important metric that the managers deny Toil variable, toil variable, reduce it and you'll fly [Outro] Measure your toil, then automate it away Transform your team's capacity today
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