Conf42: Site Reliability Engineering 2021

SLI Negotiation Tactics for Engineers

Service level indicators are quantitative measures of a service, which in turn, are measured by SLOs. This is not the talk you think it is. As Engineers, we have our own SLIs, which are Survival Level Indicators, that measure and define if we are okay or not okay at a job. What happens when the rockstar engineer, who performs essential task A and B, hasn't taken vacation in 9 months? Over time,...