The organization emphasizes reliability and scale, willing to allocate more resources to ensure failover operations are seamless and data movements are efficient. Despite the consistency versus availability trade-offs and the risk of encountering unknown unknowns during database operations, the company invests heavily in creating playbooks for worst-case scenarios. Although there have been instances of successfully recovering from unexpected failures within minutes, the goal is to automate the process further. The focus currently lies on over-allocating resources to ensure six to 12 months of growth post-shard split, prioritizing reliability and scale over cost efficiency. Restart operations are designed to be transparent for application developers, minimizing the impact on their experience.