🔥 SLOs ARE USELESS... Okay, now that I got your attention let me explain! 💭 SLIs and SLOs are crucial tools for engineering teams to measure the performance and reliability of their services. However, they are only effective if they are regularly reviewed and maintained. Simply adding new features without addressing tech debt can negatively impact reliability and customer experience. 💡 To maintain a high level of #performance and #reliability, engineering teams need to prioritize SLIs and SLOs as part of their regular sprint planning and review processes. This involves setting aside time within your ceremonies to review SLIs and SLOs, updating them as necessary, and creating tech debt tasks to address any issues that are identified. 💪🏻 By prioritizing & integrating SLIs and SLOs into your routines, you can ensure your team is always pushing for a high level of performance and reliability, which is essential for delivering a great customer experience and achieving business success. Don't let tech debt hold you back from achieving your goals. Invest in SLIs and SLOs to maintain a low error budget and keep your services running smoothly. So yeah, without proper process, measuring SLIs and setting SLOs are useless to you/your team/your business! Are you using SLOs? How does it affect your roadmap? Let me know in the comments! #techdebt #performancemanagement #reliabilityengineering
Absolutely. Ceremonies are subject to change over time, and that's an important detail to keep in mind, in my opinion. So aside from having SLI and SLO review as part of ceremonies, automated alerting and explicit ownership can also be extremely helpful in maintaining relevance and keeping accountability over time.
I couldn't agree more! It's so important that your SLOs are actionable and explorable. https://www.honeycomb.io/slos
You got my attention instantaneously. 😂
Ioannis Georgoulas (PS. read it all 😀)
CEO at Plainsight Technologies
1yAlmost had a heart attack!