{"id":1337,"date":"2015-08-28T08:23:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T12:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2015-08-28T08:23:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T12:23:18","slug":"automation-is-a-multiplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1337","title":{"rendered":"automation is a multiplier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multipliers<\/a>. They’re ubiquitous – from ratchet wrenches to fertilizer, blocks-and-tackle to calculators, humans rely on multipliers all the time.<\/p>\n

Multipliers are amazing things because they allow an individual to “do more with less” – a single person can build a coral castle<\/a>\u00a0with nothing more complex than simple machines<\/a>. Or move<\/a> 70 people at 70 miles per hour down an interstate merely by flexing his foot and twitching his arm.<\/p>\n

Feats and tasks otherwise impossible become possible due to multipliers.<\/p>\n

Automation<\/a>\u00a0is a multiplier. Some automating is obviously multiplicative – robots on assembly lines allow car manufacturers to output far more vehicles than they could in the pre-robot era. Even the assembly line is an automating force, and multiplier regarding the number of cars that could be produced by a set number of people in a given time period.<\/p>\n

In the ever-more-constrained world of IT that I orbit and transit through\u00a0–\u00a0with salary budgets cut or frozen, positions not backfilled, and the ever-growing demands of end-users (whether internal or external), technicians, engineers, project managers, and the like are always being expected to do more with the same, or do more with less.<\/p>\n

And that is where I, and the toolsets I work with, come into play – in the vital-but-hidden world of automation. Maybe it’s something as mundane as cutting requisition-to-delivery time of a server or service from weeks to hours. Maybe it’s something as hidden as automatically expanding application tiers based on usage demands – and dropping extra capacity when it’s no longer needed (one of main selling points of cloud<\/a> computing). The ROI<\/a> of automation is always seen as a multiplier – because the individual actor is now able to {{Get Things Done}}\u2122 and at least\u00a0appear<\/a><\/em> smarter<\/a> (whether they are actually any smarter or not is a totally different question).<\/p>\n

Go forth and multiply, my friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Multipliers. They’re ubiquitous – from ratchet wrenches to fertilizer, blocks-and-tackle to calculators, humans rely on multipliers all the time. Multipliers are amazing things because they allow an individual to “do more with less” – a single person can build a coral castle\u00a0with nothing more complex than simple machines. Or move 70 people at 70 miles …
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