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The Value of Reliability

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Talkat SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa · 2023-10-10..10-12· [engineering-leadership, soft-skills]

speaker

name:Niall Murphy
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/NIdI2noty4U
slides:none on file

summary

Argues reliability value isn’t just uptime seconds but measurable business impact: proposes stack labeling (attribute revenue to call-stack-like components), extends SLOs to measure failure concentration across user cohorts, and borrows AB-test economics (Bing paper) to rank fixes versus features; observes storage often absorbs most attributed value, backwash/churn is unknown and must be measured, and recommends numeric KPIs and cross-team coalitions to win engineering prioritization.

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chapters (8)

  1. 0:00Defining the problem
  2. 1:13Critiquing standard models
  3. 3:38Limitations of current metrics
  4. 7:59Emerging reliability models
  5. 12:41Advanced diagnostic approaches
  6. 15:40Prioritizing engineering work
  7. 20:58Strategic communication
  8. 25:17The future of reliability

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