alt Hacker NewsI don't know of any modern workflows that rely on "we'll tell the person not to do it again", though. There's a reason that companies have adopted blameless postmortems, because if your response to the DB going down is "It's fine, Kevin learns and next time he won't misuse the prod credentials", you are guaranteeing prod will go down again in the same way at some point.
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Literally the entirety of the worlds infrastructure relies on that. In the past we had (literally) had nuclear war hinging on a single person just deciding that some data point is an artifact.
Every modern workflow implicitly relies on that. No infrastructure is fully robust. There's a senior DB person who has learned many things many times over who could bring down most of the US power grid.
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