Sustainable work-life balance with Personal SLA (2019)

Re:Sustainable work-life balance with Personal SLA (2019) by war1025 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @08:16PM (#22991609)

Can someone please enlighten me what the heck an SLA is? I skimmed through the article and felt like he teased at providing a definition several times and then never actually did.

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Re:Sustainable work-life balance with Personal SLA (2019) by rrdharan on Sunday April 26, 2020 @08:20PM (#22991636)

Service Level Agreement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-level_agreement

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Re:Sustainable work-life balance with Personal SLA (2019) by akoncius on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:29AM (#22994814)

it is in the article:

> In IT we have a popular concept which is closely related to these two principles – Service-level agreement (SLA).

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Re:Sustainable work-life balance with Personal SLA (2019) by war1025 on Monday April 27, 2020 @11:34AM (#22996797)

I could have glossed over it the first time, but I am pretty confident that must have been added later. I think I even did a search for SLA to see if it got defined somewhere.

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Re:Sustainable work-life balance with Personal SLA (2019) by PunksATawnyFill on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:35AM (#22993736)

I guess some people feel all "leet" by using abbreviations without (or before) defining them and expecting everyone else to run around looking them up.

It's tired and lame.

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Re:Sustainable work-life balance with Personal SLA (2019) by maest on Monday April 27, 2020 @04:29AM (#22993998)

What does "leet" mean?

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Re:Sustainable work-life balance with Personal SLA (2019) by mettamage on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:58AM (#22994427)

I'm not the best to answer, but leet means "elite". There used to be a thing called leetspeak.

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

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Re:Sustainable work-life balance with Personal SLA (2019) by akoncius on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:24AM (#22994789)

which is ironic given OP's complaint about using unnecessary use of abreviations :)

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Re:Sustainable work-life balance with Personal SLA (2019) by echelon on Monday April 27, 2020 @06:26AM (#22994542)

> I guess some people feel all "leet" by using abbreviations without (or before) defining them and expecting everyone else to run around looking them up.

> It's tired and lame.

It's an incredibly common term we use at my workplace, and I expect many other engineering orgs use it as well.

We use it not only for services ("five nines"), but also for tasks and human initiated things.

It's a simple and useful stand-in for a complicated and abstract concept. I don't expect to have to explain SLAs every time they are discussed.

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