I hear you, it isn't great when people are apathetic to what happens in prod, especially when there are things that can be done. That being said, here's anothe

I hear you, it isn't great when people are apathetic to what happens in prod, especially when there are things that can be done. That being said, here's another way to view it: of all of those deep seated fears you have, what do you know you can do to avoid certain issues and what can you actually not do? Let's take the database for example. What's the deep seated fear here? Maybe: > The disks crash, the data center bursts into flames and all the data is gone! A solution to those is perform backups and get the backups off-prem. You have to explain the risk and justifications to the company as best as you can. Once you've done that, what is left? Technically speaking, bugs in the backup script could exist, or maybe the backups get corrupted. Beyond that, there are the human ones. Maybe somebody else manages the script and breaks it, or maybe backups get unintentionally poisoned by malware getting into the backups. Or maybe even before that happens the company goes "eh, risk worth taking to save costs!" and you don't even get to implement the backups. Here's the thing: these things are _not_ in your control at this point! They are out of your hands, and with humans like us who make mistakes like us. So problems are going to be expected, especially ones you don't realize right now. But they're not in your control! And yet, you did your part, and things will continue on.