SRE and Justice

Not yet at its midpoint, 2020 is already an unforgettable year. This article will appear in the fall edition of ;login: but was drafted in June, three weeks after the tragic death of George Floyd. The Black Lives Matter movement is at the forefront of current events, eclipsing even the ongoing pandemic. By the time you read this, the news cycle may have changed again (to what is anyone’s guess), but right now, Black Lives Matter is at the top of everyone’s mind, including mine. I sat down to write this column with the intention of drawing out often overlooked nuances of health-checking in distributed systems, but that will have to wait until a later column. There are more pressing matters at hand.