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Episode 548: Alex Hidalgo on Implementing Service Level Objectives

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Is Your SLO Too Low?

This is one of the most difficult parts because what you really need is feedback from your users. Sometimes it's easy, right? Sometimes you're running an infrastructure service and the teams that actually depend on your service are literally down the hall or may even sit next to you. If you're starting with an SLO based approach, this requires buy in across business, product, engineering, operations. But let's back up a bit, right? It can be as simple as interviews with people. You can almost always find other metrics that you can correlate against your SLO performance. That's not something you're going to be able to do on day one. Like I said, I think I

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