Turn one toil loop into engineering work

A weekly manual queue resize consumes 90 minutes, grows with traffic, and leaves the system unchanged afterward. SRE toil test: manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical, no enduring value, O(n) with growth Calling every annoying task toil leads to random automation. The useful test asks whether engineering effort will permanently reduce operational load. Classify Score the queue resize: manual yes, repetitive yes, automatable yes, tactical yes, enduring value no, scales with traffic yes. This is a high-confidence toil target because it matches nearly every trait. Design control Use queue depth and processing latency to scale workers within safe min/max bounds. Good automation…

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