Lightning Talk: Reliability Engineering for Humans

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Human-focused reliability uses SLIs, SLOs and error budgets as concrete levers: measure user journeys, set realistic SLOs (never 100%), and trade off stability versus change. Example: moving from 99.9% to 99.99% availability cuts allowable downtime to four minutes of error budget every 28 days, forcing costly automation to eliminate human intervention. Adopting these practices increases psychological safety by normalizing failures, boosting reporting and learning, and measurably improving team well‑being and system reliability.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:25Failure is the New Normal
3. 2:21Service Level Objective
4. 2:42Service Level Indicator
5. 2:57Error Budget
6. 3:46Psychological Safety
7. 5:14Conclusion

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