Although service-level objectives (SLOs) continue to grow in importance, theres a distinct lack of information about how to implement them. Practical advice that does exist usually assumes that your team already has the infrastructure, tooling, and culture in place. In this book, recognized SLO expert Alex Hidalgo explains how to build an SLO culture from the ground up.Ideal as a primer and daily reference for anyone creating both the culture and tooling necessary for SLO-based approaches to reliability, this guide provides detailed analysis of advanced SLO and service-level indicator (SLI) techniques. Armed with mathematical models and statistical knowledge to help you get the most out of an SLO-based approach, youll learn how to build systems capable of measuring meaningful SLIs with buy-in across all departments of your organization.Define SLIs that meaningfully measure the reliability of a service from a users perspectiveChoose appropriate SLO targets, including how to perform statistical and probabilistic analysisUse error budgets to help your team have better discussions and make better data-driven decisionsBuild supportive tooling and resources required for an SLO-based approachUse SLO data to present meaningful reports to leadership and your users
| ISBN: | 9781492076780 |
| Publication date: | 5th August 2020 |
| Author: | Hidalgo, Alex |
| Publisher: | O'Reilly Media |
| Format: | Ebook |
Although service-level objectives (SLOs) continue to grow in importance, theres a distinct lack of information about how to implement them. Practical advice that does exist usually assumes that your team already has the infrastructure, tooling, and culture in place. In this book, recognized SLO expert Alex Hidalgo explains how to build an SLO culture from the ground up.Ideal as a primer and daily reference for anyone creating both the culture and tooling necessary for SLO-based approaches to reliability, this guide provides detailed analysis of advanced SLO and service-level indicator (SLI) techniques. Armed with mathematical models and statistical knowledge to help you get the most out of an SLO-based approach, youll learn how to build systems capable of measuring meaningful SLIs with buy-in across all departments of your organization.Define SLIs that meaningfully measure the reliability of a service from a users perspectiveChoose appropriate SLO targets, including how to perform statistical and probabilistic analysisUse error budgets to help your team have better discussions and make better data-driven decisionsBuild supportive tooling and resources required for an SLO-based approachUse SLO data to present meaningful reports to leadership and your users
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Implementing Service Level Objectives was written by Hidalgo, Alex and published by O'Reilly Media
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