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reliability
10 registry resources · 8 tutorials, 1 skill · roadmap: Reliability, System Design
What this topic covers
DE//AGENT currently lists 10 resources under reliability: 8 tutorials, 1 skill, 1 reference. Everything below is derived from the live registry — counts, capabilities, verification state and security posture come from the curated records, never from marketing copy.
What you can learn here
Documented learning objectives across these resources:
- Write a blameless timeline — via Incident Postmortem Writer
- Separate trigger from contributing factors — via Incident Postmortem Writer
- Convert findings into dated, owned action items — via Incident Postmortem Writer
- Name the three properties a consumer experiences — freshness, completeness, correctness — via The data reliability mental model — freshness, completeness, correctness
- Read a data contract's SLA section as the table's reliability promise — via The data reliability mental model — freshness, completeness, correctness
- Explain why an unenforced SLA is documentation, not a contract — via The data reliability mental model — freshness, completeness, correctness
- Run the reliability checklist over your own pipeline end to end — via Capstone — the reliability checklist for a pipeline you can page on
- Drill the incident path — match the alert, walk the runbook, capture the timeline — via Capstone — the reliability checklist for a pipeline you can page on
19 more objectives live on the individual resource pages.
Where this fits in the learning roadmap
These resources map to stages: Reliability (7), System Design (3). Follow the four-phase roadmap to place this topic inside a progression instead of learning it in isolation.
Compare the registry's options
Every entry, its shape and its trust state — sorted by the registry's composite score. This table is the honest version of a marketing comparison: no sponsored placements, no unverifiable claims.
| Resource | Type | Difficulty | Verification | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incident Postmortem Writer | Skill | beginner | community flags | 38.9 |
| The data reliability mental model — freshness, completeness, correctness | Tutorial | beginner | community | 34.15 |
| Capstone — the reliability checklist for a pipeline you can page on | Tutorial | intermediate | community | 34.15 |
| Define reliability in numbers — SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets | Tutorial | intermediate | community | 34.15 |
| Design resilient pipelines — retry, circuit breaker, bulkhead | Tutorial | intermediate | community | 34.15 |
| DR and replication — design the recovery path before you need it | Tutorial | intermediate | community | 34.15 |
| Idempotency and reruns — make every task safe to run twice | Tutorial | intermediate | community | 34.15 |
| Plan and execute a backfill that doesn't break production | Tutorial | intermediate | community | 34.15 |
| Production gotchas — silent failures and partial writes | Tutorial | intermediate | community | 34.15 |
| Google SRE Books | Reference | — | community | 27.7 |
How scores are computed: source quality score.
Where to start
Highest composite score first:
- Incident Postmortem Writer score 38.9 — beginner
- The data reliability mental model — freshness, completeness, correctness score 34.15 — beginner
- Capstone — the reliability checklist for a pipeline you can page on score 34.15 — intermediate
Scores rank provenance, completeness and trust — read how verification works before adopting anything.
Good fits
Start here if you're new: Incident Postmortem Writer, The data reliability mental model — freshness, completeness, correctness.
Cautions and limitations
Security-flagged entries: Incident Postmortem Writer (1 flag). Flags mean the record declares capabilities like credential use or write access — read the security posture on each page before connecting.
Production use cases
- Incident Postmortem Writer — Structures incident notes into a blameless postmortem: timeline, impact, detection gap, contributing factors, and action items with owners and dates. details
- The data reliability mental model — freshness, completeness, correctness — Build the map before writing a single check: a consumer experiences a table as three properties — freshness, completeness, correctness — declared as an SLA in a data contract, enfo… details
- Capstone — the reliability checklist for a pipeline you can page on — Close the series by running the reliability checklist over your own pipeline: a declared and enforced SLA, idempotent tasks with backoff retries, a documented backfill runbook — th… details
- Define reliability in numbers — SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets — A design without reliability numbers is a wish. This lesson borrows the SRE toolkit — SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, postmortems, and capacity planning — and point… details
Install and inspect
Real install commands from the registry — read the source before running any of them:
npx de-agent-platform add incident-postmortem-writerIncident Postmortem Writer — review first
Further study
Adjacent topics: tutorial (8 shared), sre (3 shared), incident (2 shared), production (2 shared), system-design (2 shared), postmortem (2 shared).
Study path: the roadmap places this topic in a progression · the scoring model explains the numbers · the trust rule catalog shows every security check these entries passed through.
Full resource list
| Resource | Type | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Incident Postmortem Writer | Skill | 38.9 |
| The data reliability mental model — freshness, completeness, correctness | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Capstone — the reliability checklist for a pipeline you can page on | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Define reliability in numbers — SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Design resilient pipelines — retry, circuit breaker, bulkhead | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| DR and replication — design the recovery path before you need it | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Idempotency and reruns — make every task safe to run twice | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Plan and execute a backfill that doesn't break production | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Production gotchas — silent failures and partial writes | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Google SRE Books | Reference | 27.7 |