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Alert on the SLO, Not Everything

This generated surface maps a learner-facing curriculum unit to its canonical source routes.

Curriculum surface​

  • Open learner-facing unit
  • Curriculum path: content/curriculum/production/semester-10-capstone/module-04-operational-readiness-security-review/concepts/cluster-01-slos-and-error-budgets/03-alert-on-the-slo-not-everything-primary.md
  • App: production
  • Semester: semester-10-capstone
  • Module: module-04-operational-readiness-security-review
  • Unit kind: concept
  • Curation level: module_curated

Learning objectives​

  • Explain Alert on the SLO, Not Everything as proving the system is safe to run, inspect, and recover rather than as a final checklist before submission.
  • Use Alert on the SLO, Not Everything to reason about observability, security exposure, failure handling, and whether the capstone is truly ready for real use.
  • Use building-secure-and-reliable-systems, designing-distributed-systems, software-engineering-at-google to connect the learner page to runbooks, risk review, telemetry, and defensive engineering practice.

Prerequisites​

  • Comfort with deployed software, delivery automation, and the idea that production readiness requires security, telemetry, and recovery planning.

Source books​

  • building-secure-and-reliable-systems
  • designing-distributed-systems
  • software-engineering-at-google

Source routes​

Building Secure And Reliable Systems​

Designing Distributed Systems​

Software Engineering At Google​

Supporting curriculum routes​

External enrichment​

  • Google SRE Book: Monitoring Distributed Systems (official_docs_companion) - Connects operational-readiness work to concrete monitoring and alerting thinking rather than generic observability slogans.
  • OWASP ASVS (official_docs_companion) - Adds a structured security-verification lens for deciding whether a capstone system is truly ready to present or ship.

AI companion modes​

  • Explain simply
  • Socratic tutor
  • Challenge my understanding
  • Diagnose my confusion
  • Connect forward / backward

Source-of-truth note​

This teaching unit is learner-facing guidance assembled from canonical book routes plus prior curriculum surfaces. Use the listed source books as the primary conceptual spine for Alert on the SLO, Not Everything, and use the supporting curriculum routes to reconnect earlier learner-facing explanations when needed.