Striving for Imperfection: Using an error budget to move fast without compromising high reliability You may assume Site Reliability Engineers aim to build systems that never go down. What that fails to realize is that 100% reliability is almost never the goal. Instead, our task is to trade off reliability against the many other goals we have for our services. SREs want to provide great service to
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