Autonomous IT, Live! – Spring Into Automation: Clean Up Tech Debt & Refresh Your IT Operations, E03
Description
In this episode of Autonomous IT, Live!, Landon Miles hosts leads a three-part discussion focused on spring cleaning your IT systems, workflows, and personal well-being. You’ll hear candid, practical insights from IT professionals tackling burnout, technical debt, and infrastructure hygiene head-on.
This live show originally aired April 16, 2025
💼 Segment 1: Work-life balance in IT
Eric Fonseca (Union School District) and Ashlyn Davis (Automox) talk about setting healthy boundaries, offloading low-value tasks through automation, and building sustainable practices that support both productivity and peace of mind.
🧱 Segment 2: Taming technical debt
Colby Hall and Henry Smith from Automox unpack what technical debt looks like in practice, where it hides, and how it can turn into operational and security risk. They share real-world strategies for identifying, triaging, and resolving issues for long-term efficiency.
🔧 Segment 3: SRE spring cleaning tasks
Jeremy Maldonado, Ted Harapat, and Spencer Pothier deliver a checklist of spring cleaning tasks for site reliability engineering teams — from reducing alert fatigue and removing unused infrastructure to tightening up service level objectives and minimizing toil. Ideal for teams managing cloud environments and uptime-critical systems.
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