What’s the Point of SLOs?

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As a good software engineer, you want to write quality code.

But what does that even mean?

Is quality software well-tested software? Is it fast? Is it an elegant codebase?

In many ways, the answer to the above is a resounding yes on all counts. We want to write tested, performant, and maintainable code. Thankfully, there is no shortage of measurements to help: code…