SLOs & Error Budgets

SLOs & Error Budgets

Deciding how reliable is reliable enough
Free
3h · 5 lessons
Overview

Failure modes and blast radius, SLOs and error budgets, the three signals of observability, the retry patterns that cause outages rather than preventing them, and shipping a schema change without downtime.

This module is 06.2 of the 5 in Reliability & Operations. It runs about 3 hours across 5 lessons, and closes with Budget — Spend a quarter of error budget across features, incidents and migrations without running out in month two.

Lessons
1. SLI, SLO, SLA: three different things

Concept · 30 minutes

2. Choosing an indicator that means something

Concept · 35 minutes

3. Percentiles, and why averages lie

Concept · 35 minutes

4. Error budgets and what they authorize

Concept · 30 minutes

5. The cost of another nine

Concept · 25 minutes

Module information
Duration
3 hours
Lessons
5
Level
Advanced
Track
Reliability & Operations
Drill
Budget
Price
Free

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06.1