Slight Reliability Episode 86 - Evolving SLOs with Dom Finn

In the world of SRE we constantly talk about defining SLOs, but what about evolving them over time? This week I chat with SRE Tech Lead Dom Finn about just that. We cover the relationship between reliability and user analytics, latency classes as a way to speak SLOs with business stakeholders, the role of NFRs and how the thresholds differ from SLOs, and much more.

Books mentioned in the episode:

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
By David Deutch
https://www.amazon.com.au/Beginning-Infinity-Explanations-Transform-World/dp/0143121359

Turn The Ship Around!
By David Marquette
https://davidmarquet.com/turn-the-ship-around-book/

You can find Dom on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dom-finn/

You can find the official Slight Reliability podcast website at: https://slightreliability.com/

You can find Stephen at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sre
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliability
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kiwi_sre

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