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I don't recognise the 'different world' you describe. Practiced disciplined DR is a key part of modern software engineering at large and small companies across the startup/enterprise spectrum (in my experience). The popularity of tools like Netflix's Chaos Monkey/Gorilla/Kong server as testament to that.

That's not to say all companies do it (it seems GitLab didn't) but the tone of your comment doesn't reflect a lot of people's experiences.

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I think the key is knowing that this is routine at a subset of shops while most others are winging it to various degrees — and always has been.

If you worked at a responsible place decades ago you might be aghast at what happens at a random sampling of companies now, but the same would have been true at a random sampling decades ago. The difference is that unless you were a customer or the outage was especially prominent you probably never would have heard about it.

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