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DORA Metrics
Four measures of software delivery performance — deployment frequency, lead time for change, change failure rate, and time to restore service.
Fail-Fast vs Fail-Safe
Whether a component should stop immediately on detecting a problem, or continue in a degraded but safe mode — a choice that depends entirely on which outcome is worse.
LLM Evaluation
A repeatable measurement of whether an AI system's outputs are good enough, on cases that reflect the actual task.
Service Level Indicator
The actual measurement of a service's behaviour that an objective is set against — a ratio of good events to valid events.
Synchronous vs Asynchronous Communication
Whether the caller waits for the callee's answer — decided by whether the caller's outcome depends on it, not by latency or taste.
Outcome Measurement
Knowing whether the thing you built achieved what it promised.
Business Understanding
Connecting a design to the outcome that pays for it.
SLI, SLO & SLA
The measurement, the internal target, and the contractual commitment.
Sync vs Async
Whether the caller's outcome depends on the callee's response.
Value Streams
End-to-end delivery of an outcome, and where the waiting happens.