Tag: automation

Automation at Your Core

We often hear that automating repetitive tasks improves productivity. But how do we decide when automation is truly worth the effort? 1 At OKX, while managing end-to-end testing servers, I frequently needed to SSH into servers to diagnose issues and retrieve relevant logs (to my local) for further investigations. This was tedious but manageable, thanks to my terminal’s auto-completion. However, as we expanded to four servers (two in Hong Kong, two in Singapore), keeping track of server IPs, usernames and passwords for the SSH became a hassle.