SLO
Abbreviation with 2 meanings
| Stands for | Service-level objective |
|---|---|
| Meanings | 2 |
| Categories | Technology & Computing, Geography & Places |
SLO has two meanings. It stands for Service-level objective (cloud computing) or San Luis Obispo (city and neighborhood).
Meanings of SLO at a glance
| # | SLO stands for | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Service-level objective | Technology & Computing › Cloud Computing |
| 2 | San Luis Obispo | Geography & Places › City and Neighborhood |
1. Service-level objective
Technology & Computing · Cloud Computing Abbreviations
A specific, measurable reliability target for a service, such as 99.9 percent of requests succeeding or 95 percent of pages loading in under 300 milliseconds over 30 days. Teams use SLOs internally to balance reliability against shipping speed.
Example: Our SLO is 99.9 percent availability, which leaves an error budget of about 43 minutes a month.
Popularized by Google's site reliability engineering practice. The gap between the objective and perfection forms the "error budget": while budget remains, teams can ship risky changes, and once it is spent they focus on reliability. SLOs are usually stricter than any external SLA so problems surface before contracts are breached.
2. San Luis Obispo
Geography & Places · City and Neighborhood Abbreviations
Central Coast California city and county, home to Cal Poly, widely abbreviated SLO, which locals turn into the pun SLO Town and SLO Life.
Example: Wine tasting in SLO County is quieter than in Napa.
San Luis Obispo grew around a Spanish mission founded in 1772. Its farmers market on Thursday nights is a local institution.
Related abbreviations
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- S3 – Simple Storage Service
- SaaS – Software as a service
- SLA – Service-level agreement
- SLI – Service-level indicator
- SNS – Simple Notification Service
- SPOF – Single point of failure
- SQS – Simple Queue Service
- SRE – Site reliability engineering
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