SRE's Critical Role in the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Government
summary
Built and deployed government-grade services that actually moved data and goods: SimpleReport and ReportStream give ad-hoc testing sites an EHR and a nationwide pipeline, delivering about 33 million test results and onboarding ~15,000 facilities after a six-week first delivery; vaccines.gov launches from inception in two months, sees 110.1 million sessions and 73.6 million users in 2021 and cuts average wait by ~2 weeks; covidtest.gov ships mass home tests at scale—185 million packages and over three billion tests delivered—using serverless APIs, CDNs, and staged rollout shims.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to USDS
- 2:05Government vs. industry
- 5:22Testing data pipelines
- 18:01Vaccines.gov development
- 27:24Covidtest.gov distribution
- 35:44Impact of SRE in government
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