Run, Walk, Crawl - How We Failed Our Way to SLO Readiness

Learn how to build site reliability culture from the ground up in a hyper-growth startup environment through this 14-minute conference talk from SREcon25 EMEA. Discover the unique challenges of scaling SRE practices at resource-constrained startups where tight deadlines and shifting priorities often compete with proactive reliability initiatives. Follow Spring Health's SLO adoption journey as Rob Durst shares real-world failures, missteps, and near wins that ultimately led to breakthrough success. Explore a practical readiness framework for assessing when teams are prepared to invest in reliability initiatives and when they might need more foundational work first. Gain insights into timing reliability investments effectively and navigating the socio-technical realities that make each startup's reliability journey unique, particularly valuable for engineering organizations in their early reliability phases.