327: Two (Surprisingly Scary) Tales of Platform Risk

This podcast episode explores the challenges and solutions related to data safety, platform risks, and problems with search indexes. The speaker shares their experience with AWS restrictions, emphasizes the importance of backup extraction strategies, and highlights the need to protect critical databases. They discuss instances of platform risks in the Podscan software and the solutions they found, emphasizing the value of data and problem-solving. The speaker also discusses the challenges faced in working with search indexes and the process of creating a full-text index on a production system. They propose solutions such as creating read replicas and emphasize the importance of backup mechanisms.