Sla Glossary
Browse 3 sla terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
3 Sla Terms
- Five Nines
- A measure of system availability equal to 99.999%, allowing no more than 5 minutes and 15 seconds of downtime per year.
- Latency Budget
- The maximum allowable end-to-end response time for a request, broken down and allocated across each component in the processing chain — such as DNS, TLS...
- Nines
- Shorthand for uptime percentages. 'Three nines' = 99.9%, 'five nines' = 99.999%. Each additional nine is exponentially harder and more expensive to achieve....
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