SLO & Reliability
Practical
By Samson Tanimawo, PhD
Published Jan 27, 2026
4 min read
SLO Stakeholder Conversations
Talking SLOs with non-technical stakeholders.
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'99.9%' = ~43 minutes per month of acceptable issues.
Concrete.
Trade-offs
Higher SLO = more engineering investment.
Cost is real.
Budget framing
Error budget = how much risk we can take.
Drives priorities.