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SLAs, SLOs and alerting

Walk through each part of "SLAs, SLOs and alerting", then explain what each one does.

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A data platform is a product with internal customers and customers want commitments. The behavioral theme in the JD is explicit: treat the platform as a product. SLAs are how you write that down.

The mistake juniors make is one blanket promise for everything. The mistake of someone who's run a real platform is a tiered promise - because agent-training data and revenue numbers do not deserve the same reliability budget as an analyst's exploratory scratch table.