Or why anticipating too much is merely a gamble. You can be lucky, but how often will you be? Also I agree that in such cases the performance will be impacted longer term leading to a death by thousands of paper cuts.

Looks like an interesting tool for creating anonymized pre-production environments.

Retries are becoming common place to deal with transient errors. That said, they can be a problem with recovery of longer failures due to amplification. There are options on the table to solve this though.

Compile time reflection in C++ will indeed be a big deal.

Interesting take, those bugs are more convenient to exploit. Logic bugs are too specific to easily exploit at scale.

Need to duplicate data in Postgres? Several options are on the table.