# How SRE Teams Use Service Level Objectives to Align Business and Engineering

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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: 2026-07-17T10:12:25+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-site-reliability-podcast/episode-0116.mp3
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## Resource

Episode 116 of The Site Reliability Podcast explores how SRE teams use Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to create a shared language between business stakeholders and engineering. Lucas and Luna break down a real example from a large e-commerce platform where a 99.95% availability SLO prevented a costly over-engineering decision. They discuss the difference between SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, how error budgets enable innovation, and common pitfalls like vanity metrics. The hosts explain how to define meaningful SLOs that reflect user experience rather than infrastructure health, and how to use them to guide incident prioritization and capacity planning. This episode is ideal for SREs, platform engineers, and tech leaders looking to bridge the gap between reliability and business goals. #SRE #SiteReliabilityEngineering #SLO #ServiceLevelObjective #ErrorBudget #Reliability #Uptime #IncidentResponse #Observability #Monitoring #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #BusinessAlignment #TechLeadership #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Technology #ECommerce Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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