This article is a preview of a talk by Greg Arnette for SLOconf 2023 on May 15 – 18. To watch this talk and many more like it, register for free at sloconf.com. Tax season was just a few weeks ago, and that got me thinking about how frustrating it is to get hit with […]
Implementing SLOs-as-Code: A Case Study
This article was co-authored by Stephan Lips, Devin Cunningham and Justin Hoang of Procore and is a preview of their talk for SLOconf 2023 on May 15-18, 2023. To watch this talk and many more like it, register for free at sloconf.com. By managing service level objectives (SLOs) as code, we can co-locate SLO definitions […]
Nobl9 Adds Service Level Analyzer to SLO Management Platform
Nobl9 today added a free tool for analyzing service level objectives (SLOs) to its platform to enable DevOps team to more accurately set reliability goals. Brian Singer, chief product officer for Nobl9, said Service Level Analyzer collects metrics and observability data from more than 24 DevOps tools and platforms that can then be used to […]
How to Rethink Your Website Uptime
COVID-19 rapidly accelerated e-commerce, almost shutting down in-person shopping during the lockdown. Ordering from Amazon became second nature. The online giant accounted for approximately 33% growth—50 million new Amazon Prime members. While there are concerns that consumer spending will fall short this year, according to Adobe’s 2022 holiday shopping predictions, online discounts are already playing […]
Decidability: SLOs to Measure Quality Attributes
You may be familiar with the “-ilities”–the quality attributes that define a system’s so-called “non-functional” parts. One that isn’t on the list is decidability, which is the ultimate quality attribute because it focuses on what truly matters to your team and your customers. You can’t do it all. Fast, cheap and good? Here in the […]
Nobl9 Adds Free Tier to SaaS Platform for Managing SLOs
Nobl9 this week announced it is making available a perpetual free tier of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing service level objectives (SLOs). The free tier was announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference and the company also revamped its pricing. Nobl9 Teams Edition (formerly Nobl9 Hydrogen) now includes 50 SLOs, up from 25, for […]
Nobl9 Simplifies SLO Identification
Nobl9 today added a Replay capability to its service level objectives (SLO) management platform that makes it simpler to collect the historical data a DevOps team needs to get started. Nobl9 COO Kit Merker said Nobl9 Replay makes service level indicator (SLI) data instantly available in minutes using 30 days of historical data collected from […]
How to Adopt an SRE Practice (When You’re not Google)
Site reliability engineering (SRE) isn’t a new term or practice. The practice of applying software engineering skills and principles to operations problems and tasks happened even before site reliability engineer was a defined job title. But organizing a proactive approach to building and maintaining software drives long-term success in improving operational efficiency, data-driven roadmap planning […]
Increasing Use of SLOs to Enable Observability
Observability is a growing discipline among most IT and operations departments. To release stable software faster, operators need continuous visibility into metrics like performance, uptime and availability. As a result, engineers are increasing their use of service-level objectives (SLOs) across the board—a recent study found that 82% of companies are increasing their use of SLOs. […]
Nobl9 Shares SLO-as-Code Methodology
Nobl9 has released version 1.0 of an open specification for defining service level objectives, dubbed OpenSLO, and, in addition, has defined a repeatable SLO methodology. Kit Merker, Nobl9 COO, said the Service Level Objective Development Lifecycle (SLODC) methodology represents an effort to create a set of best practices for achieving and maintaining SLOs that are […]