Relieving Technical Debt through Short Projects

It's easy to plan out month-long or year-long projects, or to have an interrupts rotation for dealing with oncall/tickets, but how do you make sure you're also doing the short week-long projects that can relieve your technical debt? I'll cover a planning approach that my team found that makes room for all three sets of work, reducing in the long term the operational burden of the services we operate.

Liz is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google and manages a team of SREs responsible for Google's storage systems. She lives with her wife, metamour, and two Samoyeds in Brooklyn. In her spare time, she plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online alliance, and advocates for transgender rights.