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2 resources from Google SRE Book we point founders to, and the questions each answers.

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Why we picked it Google's error budget is the most rigorous version of the one third rule: define how much unreliability you can tolerate, and when you blow past it, new feature work stops until reliability recovers. It gives you an objective trigger for when to drop the exciting build and pay down reliability. Even a rough version of this keeps promises from silently rotting.

Embracing Risk (Error Budgets)

From Google SRE Book by Google SRE Team

Set an explicit budget for how much unreliability you accept
When the budget is spent, feature work pauses for reliability
A shared budget ends the endless features versus stability argument

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Answers What is a sane way to prioritise between fixing bugs, paying customer promises, and building the exciting new thing?

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Why we picked it When a deploy breaks and it is no longer just you, how you react sets the culture for years, and this chapter makes the case for blameless review that fixes the system rather than the person. For a founder and a first engineer, this is what keeps them shipping confidently instead of freezing up after a mistake. It is short and immediately usable.

Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure

From Google SRE Book by Google SRE 20 min read

Blame free reviews get people to surface problems instead of hiding them
Fix the process and the safeguards, not the individual
Write down what happened so the same failure does not repeat

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Answers How should our shipping process change once we hire our first engineer and it is no longer just me pushing to production?

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