When Google introduced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in 2003, it revolutionized how we thought about system reliability. More than twenty years later, we’re facing an uncomfortable truth: despite widespread SRE adoption, catastrophic outages continue to plague our industry at an alarming rate. Why is a methodology designed to prevent failures unable to keep pace with…

Data centers now consume more than 2% of the world’s electricity, with that percentage growing annually. As digital infrastructure expands, this environmental impact becomes increasingly significant. Traditional SRE practices, focused solely on performance and reliability, often lead to overprovisioning and inefficient resource utilization that unnecessarily increases this environmental footprint.