LinkedIn Draft — Insight (2026-07-10)
End of week. Here's the thing I kept coming back to:
SLOs work when they create conversations, not when they create compliance
Most SLOs are set once, filed in a doc, and forgotten until an incident. The teams getting real value from error budgets use them as a weekly forcing function — a number that makes the reliability vs. velocity tradeoff visible to engineers and product managers in the same room.
SLO as compliance (common): SLO as conversation (effective):
