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Choose Your Own SLOconf Adventure
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Using Your Error Budgets for Alerting and Notifying
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If you've ever been woken up by an alert at 3AM only to realize it didn’t matter, you’re not alone. Traditional alerting...
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Assessing SLO Maturity: A Practical Model for Driving Reliability Outcomes
August 20, 2025
Too often, SLOs are set once and ignored- missing their real potential to guide smart decisions and reduce risk. In this...
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Bringing SLOs to Life: Connecting deployments, incidents, and tickets to performance
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SLOs help you track the health and performance of your services, but without the right context, it’s easy to miss the fu...
Announcing SLOconf 2023 Local Events
Please note SLOconf 2023 has taken place. Stay tuned for 2024! SLOconf was born from the virtual conference world. In ad...
Service Levels in the Real World
When we talk about service level objectives we often focus on things like the latency or error rates of web-facing APIs....
What is Reliability Anyway?
We all want our services to be reliable, and service level objectives (SLOs) are perhaps our best approach to doing this...
Site Reliability Engineering in Six Words
Originally published in 97 Things Every SRE Should Know, November 2020 When someone I’ve just met asks me what I do for ...
Error Budgets Are for Asking Questions
In 2016 Google published the first SRE book. The book has sold phenomenally over the last six years and remains one of t...
Take a Peek at SLOconf 2022
Last year in March a single Tweet snowballed and quickly turned into SLOconf 2021 just two months later. Following a uni...
The future is bright
Back in September of 2020 I took the opportunity of a lifetime when I joined Nobl9 as Principal Site Reliability Enginee...
The SLO Book Cheat Sheet
I love Twitter. Like any other aspect of the Internet, it can sometimes be maddening. Still, especially in the tech comm...
You Can See More From the Top
At the base of all things related to SLO-based approaches to reliability are your service level indicators. While we thr...
Alex Hidalgo on Reliability Reporting: Painting Big Picture for SLOs
Chock-full of example scenarios you’ve probably experienced yourself, Chapter 17 of Implementing Service Level Objective...
A Guide to SRECon Americas 2020
If there is one end-of-the-year conference I think you should check out it’s definitely the virtual edition of SRECon Am...
Today I Join the Noble Pursuit of User Happiness
Today I am joining Nobl9 as their principal site reliability engineer. My goal in life is to make people happy, and I th...
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