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SLOs, SLIs and Error Budgets
An SLI is the measurement, an SLO is the target you hold yourself to, and an SLA is the contract you sign. The error budget is what the SLO leaves over, and treating it as an allowance to spend rather than a line to defend is what separates teams that ship from teams that freeze.
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