Good teams know what service availability is in general. Great teams know what their service availability is specifically. Excellent teams, however, use their service availability budget to drive engineering decision making.

Service Level Objectives

• Datadog Service Level Objectives https://docs.datadoghq.com/service_management/service_level_objectives/

• Site Reliability Engineering by Beyer, Jones, Petoff, Murphy | Foundational concepts for systems engineers, including Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/

• Alerting on SLOs https://sre.google/workbook/alerting-on-slos/
• Preventing the Collapse of Civilization by Jonathan Blow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
• Z Notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_notation

Jonathan Blow's games are wonderfully made, and highly addictive

• Braid https://store.steampowered.com/app/26800/Braid/
• The Witness https://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/The_Witness/

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