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SLOs and incident management

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SLOs and incident management questions

11 questions on SLOs and incident management for backend developers, easiest first.

Easy 1

N+1 capacityeasy

Medium 8

Requests in flight with Little's lawmedium
How many workers are neededmedium
Time to drain a backlogmedium
Choosing a partition countmedium
FIFO queue throughputmedium
Promising more than a dependencymedium
When the error budget runs outmedium
Too many alerts, missed outagesmedium

Hard 2

Calculating an error budget burn ratehard
Surviving the loss of one zonehard

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