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Cloud & Reliability
SLOs that mean something to the business
Ninety-nine point nine of what, measured where? Most SLOs measure the wrong thing.
7 min read

Cloud & Reliability
Cloud cost is an architecture problem
Rightsizing gets you 20%. Architecture gets you the rest.
7 min read

Cloud & Reliability
Observability beyond dashboards
If you only know what you thought to graph, you do not have observability.
8 min read
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