An interesting perspective I once heard from an information security expert is that there's a difference between risks and 'things that can go wrong'. Something is only an actual risk if it hurts the bottom-line. In particular quite a few things that can go wrong don't carry that much risk, and conversely something that is hard but not impossible to go wrong may carry huge amounts of risk. The trick with this perspec…
This was an interesting bit of math I did when I joined a startup. It's pretty counter-intuitive to think about how very large numbers can increase the importance of small ones. Say the company you work for is worth $10,000,000, and that you're hosted on GCP. Now take your best guess: what do you think the likelihood is of e.g. a fire or earthquake or something occurring in all relevant Google infrastructure simultan…
Re: Testing on production
#101While I agree with your math, I am curious how much your physical backups would be worth if something so catastrophic occurred that all of Google/AWS/Azure cloud services were destroyed. Whether that be an act of war, a massive solar flare, etc., I am curious if it would even matter anymore that you had those backups.