RELIABILITY & SRE • 320 / 397
Apply familiar SRE thinking to AI dependencies and workflows.
Health Check
A health check tests whether a component is alive or ready to serve useful traffic.
Think of it like
Think of Health Check exactly as you would in production infrastructure: assume components fail and design the user experience around controlled failure.
Real life
Banks, airlines and large online services use Health Check to keep critical systems dependable.
SRE lens
Model readiness should verify weights loaded and inference functional, not only process existence.
Remember thisA health check tests whether a component is alive or ready to serve useful traffic.