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Software delivery & architecture · Working

Error budget

Also called: reliability budget

ELI5

How much failure is allowed before reliability work takes priority.

Used in conversation

“The team exhausted the error budget this month.”

Definition

The tolerated amount of unreliability implied by a service-level objective.

Here “Error budget” means: The tolerated amount of unreliability implied by a service-level objective.

Pitch context

You will see “Error budget” in product strategy decks, roadmaps, experiments and architecture reviews when the discussion reaches software delivery & architecture.

Why it matters: It helps a reader interpret software delivery & architecture without confusing the measure, decision, role or evidence being discussed.

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