> When I worked at Heroku, we used soft deletion. When I worked at Stripe, we used soft deletion. At my job right now, we use soft deletion. > As far as I’m aw

> When I worked at Heroku, we used soft deletion. When I worked at Stripe, we used soft deletion. At my job right now, we use soft deletion. > As far as I’m aware, never once, in ten plus years, did anyone at any of these places ever actually use soft deletion to undelete something. That's wild. So it seems the idea of needing undelete is largely an unfounded fear.