ALT A blue image that fades into orange across a gradient from left to right. On the left-hand side, in orange is the text “PagerDuty Summit”. Below that line, in green, is the name “Brian Rutkin”. Below Brian’s name, in orange, is the text “Sr. Staff SRE, Twitter”. On the right-hand side of the image is a black-and-white photo of a man in a suit and tie. The man, who has a goatee and close-cropped hair, is staring off into the distance as he adjusts his tie.

ALT We’re starting with a set of words we want to move away from using in favor of more inclusive language, such as: Whitelist to Allowlist Blacklist to Denylist Master/slave to Leader/follower, primary/replica, primary/standby Grandfathered to Legacy status Gendered pronouns (e.g. guys) to Folks, people, you all, y’all Gendered pronouns (e.g. he/him/his) to They, them, their Man hours to Person hours, engineer hours Sanity check to Quick check, confidence check, coherence check Dummy value to Placeholder value, sample value

ALT We’re starting with a set of words we want to move away from using in favor of more inclusive language, such as: Whitelist to Allowlist Blacklist to Denylist Master/slave to Leader/follower, primary/replica, primary/standby Grandfathered to Legacy status Gendered pronouns (e.g. guys) to Folks, people, you all, y’all Gendered pronouns (e.g. he/him/his) to They, them, their Man hours to Person hours, engineer hours Sanity check to Quick check, confidence check, coherence check Dummy value to Placeholder value, sample value

ALT A mashup of the Twitter bird logo and the Java mascot "Duke". The mashup illustration was done by @apelad.