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DOP 179: What Are Service Level Objectives?

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The Importance of Error Budgets

SREs look at how much unreliability they're willing to accept over a certain timeframe. A 1x burn rate means you're going to burn all your error budget over the period, and that's fine. If you go up to 3x, it means that you're going on about a third of the time. That might be a problem, but it's not necessarily an outage. Once a service runs out of error budget, continuous deployment turns off except for bug fixes in tech debt.

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