> In the past years, I've grown increasingly concerned about backups. To me, it feels like whatever you back up should be validated, before it's considered "okay".
I've been trying to toot this horn at every place I've consulted/worked at, with the most common response from software engineers being: "We're using the AWS backup system of the database, of course it works, no need to test it"
People have way too much trust in systems overall, especially ones they have no inside information about. And people also seems to default to "Of course it works" without testing it, instead of "How would I know it works if I haven't tested it?" or even "I don't know".
I've been trying to toot this horn at every place I've consulted/worked at, with the most common response from software engineers being: "We're using the AWS backup system of the database, of course it works, no need to test it"
People have way too much trust in systems overall, especially ones they have no inside information about. And people also seems to default to "Of course it works" without testing it, instead of "How would I know it works if I haven't tested it?" or even "I don't know".