Oct 1, 2025Drowning in noisy alerts or vague runbooks when seconds matter? This lesson turns signals into action: you’ll design crisp monitoring and alerting sections that map to SLOs, protect error budgets, and spell out first steps and escalation without ambiguity. Expect high-signal guidance, real-world phrasing examples, and targeted exercises to lock in thresholds, severities, and actions. Finish with a dependable template you can deploy today—clear, testable, and ready for 3 a.m. pages.

Oct 1, 2025Do design reviews stall and runbooks waffle when priorities clash—availability, latency, cost, or velocity? In this lesson, you’ll learn to make reliability trade-offs explicit using the CEIMD pattern, so RFCs read crisply and on-call actions are unambiguous under pressure. Expect tight explanations, real-world phrasing templates, targeted examples, and short exercises that convert vague intentions into auditable decisions across SLOs, error budgets, monitoring, degradation, and readiness. Finish with language you can paste into production docs today.