dougpa

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   by dougpa 5y ago

   It does have to be paid off. A business's technical division can, and inevitably will, become insolvent due to the accumulation of that debt. I take it you've never worked at a company which, after a fast & high-complexity per
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   by dougpa 5y ago

   I agree, that was kind of my point. He was talking about taking VM's but in a cloud environment this is a bit more awkward. Copying and storing VM's securely is not hard, but transferring AMI's is the only rough equivalent I
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   by dougpa 5y ago

   oooo true, that does invalidate my point. AMI's are very easy to copy-over across accounts, i.e. to a potentially firewalled account.
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   by dougpa 5y ago

   Finding something reasonable between "we're at risk for a nuclear attack" (a black swan event) and "we're at risk for having our root credentials exfiltrated" (a daily occurrence) is not hard. I feel like these
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   by dougpa 5y ago

   You can't really serialize something like an ami. So how are you going to make an offsite backup? Things need to be relatively simple & reproducible otherwise you will get bitten in many different ways due to strategies like this.
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   by dougpa 5y ago

   It puts you 95% of the way there while providing many side benefits. This is what my team is targeting. Prod deployments are 0-downtime, but all the other deployments are fresh.