# How SRE Teams Use Latency Budgets to Meet Performance SLOs

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Podcast: [The Site Reliability Podcast with Fexingo: SRE, Uptime, and Production Engineering](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-site-reliability-podcast-with-fexingo-sre-uptime-and-production-engineering-7871923)
Published: 2026-06-29T22:27:49+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-site-reliability-podcast/episode-0081.mp3
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## Resource

Lucas and Luna dive into latency budgets — a less-discussed SRE tool that maps acceptable delay across each microservice in a user request chain. They use the example of a social media app's photo upload feature: if the overall latency SLO is 500 milliseconds, the team allocates 50 ms to the auth service, 200 ms to the image processing service, and so on. Lucas explains how Google's internal SRE teams popularized this approach, and Luna shares how her former employer used latency budgets to identify a misconfigured CDN that was adding 120 ms per request. The episode covers common pitfalls like budget over-allocation due to optimistic assumptions, and a practical tip: instrument every service with percentile-based latency tracking (p50, p95, p99). No fluff, just a concrete reliability pattern you can apply. #LatencyBudgets #SiteReliabilityEngineering #ServiceLevelObjectives #Microservices #PerformanceEngineering #Uptime #Observability #DistributedSystems #GoogleSRE #CDN #p99Latency #RootCauseAnalysis #IncidentResponse #DevOps #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TheSiteReliabilityPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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