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You work for a global organization and run a service with an availability target of 99% with limited engineering resources. For the current calendar month, you noticed that the service has 99.5% avail
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Submitted by mateo_ar· Apr 18, 2026Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
Question
You work for a global organization and run a service with an availability target of 99% with limited engineering resources. For the current calendar month, you noticed that the service has 99.5% availability. You must ensure that your service meets the defined availability goals and can react to business changes, including the upcoming launch of new features. You also need to reduce technical debt while minimizing operational costs. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Options
- AAdd N+1 redundancy to your service by adding additional compute resources to the service.
- BIdentify, measure, and eliminate toil by automating repetitive tasks.
- CDefine an error budget for your service level availability and minimize the remaining error budget.
- DAllocate available engineers to the feature backlog while you ensure that the service remains
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#Toil elimination#SRE principles#Operational efficiency#Resource management