SLOsareacontractbetweenengineeringandthebusiness.Hereishowtodefinethemsotheydrivedecisions,notjustdashboards.
If every service is "99.999%", you are probably planning poorly and burning people out.
Choose SLIs that match what customers feel — checkout success, API success, page load — then set SLOs with explicit error budgets.
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When the budget is exhausted, slow feature work and invest in stability — that is the point.
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