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> ensure systems are designed to never let it happen again Though that may be the right response in many scenarios, sometimes it's better to just accept the ri

• stego-tech 2y ago
  > sometimes it's better to just accept the risk of it happening again, as the preventative measure may be worse than the disease I mean, while this is an important consideration to have, I fear that all too often it's used as an excuse to ignore the issue altogether until a later date, especially by management. Prevention doesn't necessarily mean the issue is prevented from recurring, but that the outcome is prevented. It could be building a self-healing check that intervenes on a given symptom to auto-repair a known fault. It could be firing off a warning that this issue will happen again soon, so whoever is on call isn't caught by surprise. It could be shunting a known outage into a specific maintenance window, so customers don't notice it. Prevention is ideal, sure, but sometimes the best you can do is a preemptive response.