Automation's impact

- [Presenter] The goal of automation … isn't to replace humans. … Engineers will always be required … to keep the train on the tracks. … Rather, it's to make our lives easier. … Automation takes repetitive human tasks … and streamlines them into an automatic process. … Take for example a network that contains 100 switches. … For each switch, the upgrade process requires … first verifying the current version, … determining if it needs to be upgraded, … uploading the new iOS, … saving and/or backing up the current configuration, … reloading a device, and then ensuring it upgrades properly. … This is likely a process that takes … around 25 minutes per device. … That equates to nearly 42 hours of work … to complete the process. … Now imagine automating the process. … Even if it takes a few hours to develop … and test the process, it saves over 30 hours … the very first time it's utilized. … Multiple, repetitive human tasks … are also susceptible to errors with typos, … especially as focus begins to dull over time. …