·4 min read
Pick the right SLO before you worry about the error budget
An error budget only works when the SLO beneath it reflects what users feel. Why copied reliability targets fail, and how to choose an SLI worth measuring.
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·6 min read
The fishbone diagram for incident root cause analysis
A fishbone diagram maps every contributing cause of an incident, not just one. What it is, how it beats the 5 Whys, and how to run one in a postmortem.
·3 min read
Your first on-call shift, and how to get through it
Your first on-call shift is less about knowing everything and more about staying calm, reading before you touch, and knowing when to escalate.
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Your incident response has a bus factor of one
Here is a quick test for how fragile your incident response is. Imagine your best engineer is unreachable during the next outage. If that thought worries you, your bus factor is one.
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The engineer who knows everything is a risk, not a hero
Every team has the one engineer who fixes everything. That dependency is a single point of failure with a pulse. How to spread the knowledge before it walks out the door.
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Runbooks people actually use
Most runbooks are written once, never opened, and useless by the time you need them. What separates a runbook that helps mid-incident from one that just exists.