Season of Docs brings technical writers and open source projects together for a few months to work on open source documentation. 2019 is the first time we’re running this exciting new program.

Killed by Google is a Free and Open Source list of dead Google products, services, and devices.
It serves to be a tribute and memorial of beloved products and services killed by Google.

This article builds upon Vivek Rau’s chapter “Eliminating Toil” in Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems [1]. We begin by recapping Vivek’s definition of toil and Google’s approach to balancing operational work with engineering project work. [1] B. Beyer, C. Jones, J. Petoff, and N. Murphy, eds., Site Reli- ability Engineering (O’Reilly Media, 2016).