Episode 98 - Histograms and Service Level Objectives

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English - September 11, 2020 09:00 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 97 - Threat Modeling with Greg Harris

Next Episode: Episode 99 - Elasticsearch Distributions

Where we talk about what Service Level Objectives actually are and why they are so important in the field of Site Reliability Engineering. We cover the definition of an SLO, how they relate to error budgets, and take a look at various implementations of time series databases' support for calculating accurate percentiles.

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Sponsors for Episode 98:

42 Lines is a DevOps consulting firm specializing in
Observability, Cloud Migration, Cost Control, Security Practices, and Team
Mentoring.

Links for Episode 98:

Atlassian Incident Management
High Availibility Percentage Calculation
Google SRE Book: Embracing Risk
Quantile Definition
Four Golden Signals
Histograms at Scale
VictoriaMetrics Histograms
Circonus Log-Linear Histograms
T-Digests