The Importance of Documentation and Resilience in Engineering

Disaster recovery is more than automation and infrastructure. There's a lot that goes into your services and some of those things can't be defined as code or automated. When was the last time you restored your database from a backup? How do you use least privileged access when your region changes and how do you even know you're having a disaster. Seth has a lot of experience and a ton of good insights in this episode.

Links

• Seth’s Linktree https://linktr.ee/setheliot
• arpio https://arpio.io/services/
• EKS Auto example repo https://community.aws/content/2sV2SNSoVeq23OvlyHN2eS6lJfa/amazon-eks-auto-mode-enabled-build-your-super-powered-cluster
• Disaster recovery white paper https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/disaster-recovery-workloads-on-aws/disaster-recovery-workloads-on-aws.html
• Disaster recovery blog series https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/tag/disaster-recovery-series/
• Ship it! with Pete Naylor https://changelog.com/shipit/127
• Engineering Resilient Systems on AWS by Jennifer Moran https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Resilient-Systems-AWS-Resilience/dp/1098162420
• Four Things Everyone Should Know About Resilience https://community.aws/content/2duX45O6vKOE7cmmXQ9Nj3tO3bL/should-know-resilience