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"Operationally mature" is code here for "the gun starts out loaded and pointed at your foot". It's fine to point out that that's a suboptimal design for a tool

• anonfordays 2y ago
  >Operationally mature" is code here for "the gun starts out loaded and pointed at your foot" No, it's code for "don't build a load bearing bridge if you don't understand structural engineering." > It's fine to point out that that's a suboptimal design for a tool. This isn't "suboptimal" though. If you delete a stored procedure in your RDBMS and it causes an outage, it's not because SQL/PostgreSQL is suboptimal. Similarly if you accidentally delete files from your file system, it's not because file systems are "suboptimal". It's because you weren't operationally mature enough to have proper testing and backups in place.
  • regularfry 2y ago
    Defaults matter. I don't know how else to express that a system which fails safe in the face of fallible humans is strictly better, all else being equal, than the alternative.
    • anonfordays 2y ago
      That is the default. Terraform fails safe by not deleting your databases on a whim, it asks for manual confirmation by default.
      • regularfry 2y ago
        Unless the resource disappears unexpectedly from the config, in which case it gets deleted. That's the issue.
        • anonfordays 2y ago
          It doesn't just "get deleted," by default it prompts and warns the user that there is a deletion planned, and the user must manually confirm the deletion. There is no issue.