Everyone Talks About SLOs, Nobody Talks About Error Budgets Every SRE conference has talks...
Everyone Talks About SLOs, Nobody Talks About Error Budgets
Every SRE conference has talks about SLOs. Set a target! 99.9%! Three nines! Standing ovation.
But the actually useful part — what you DO when you're burning your error budget — rarely gets discussed.
What's an Error Budget, Really?
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