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Getting to SLOs with Functional Boundaries

  • Course
  • 14 Lessons

SLOs help us make technical decisions by considering business trade-offs. But SLOs can be difficult to set up if you have no historical data or are building something new. By using functional boundaries we can inject SLO style reasoning into our decision making before we're ready for SLOs

Contents

Introduction: SLOs are Hard

SLOs and Golden Signals
  • 2 mins
  • 208 MB
When SLOs Don't Fit Your Situation
  • 2 mins
  • 153 MB

Using a Boundary Model

Rasmussen's Model
  • 2 mins
  • 286 MB
Determining Boundaries
  • 2 mins
  • 227 MB
Boundaries as Tradeoffs
  • 2 mins
  • 206 MB
Testing Boundaries
  • 1 min
  • 109 MB
Purely Technical Boundaries
  • 3 mins
  • 331 MB
Worksheet: Rasmussen's Model
  • 13.2 KB
Bonus: Dr. Richard Cook's Deep Dive on Rasmussen Model at Velocity 2013

    Example: Open Source CMS

    Scenario: Breaking Out Services
    • 3 mins
    • 382 MB
    How Boundaries Create Insight
    • 1 min
    • 102 MB
    Scenario: Adopt or Migrate?
    • 2 mins
    • 219 MB

    Best Practices

    Best Practices with Boundaries
    • 3 mins
    • 299 MB
    Bonus: SLIs/SLOs Deep Dive