[DC-3]

It's the old IBM thing. If your website goes down along with everyone else's because of Cloudflare, you shrug and say "nothing we could do, we were following the industry standard". If your website goes down because of on-prem then it's very much your problem and maybe you get to look forward to an exciting debrief with your manager's manager.

[lpcvoid]

That's lazy engineering and I don't think we as technical, rational people should make that our way of working. I know the saying, but I disagree with it. My fuckups, my problem, but at least I can avoid fuckups actively if I am in charge.

[reassess_blind]

How do you mitigate large scale DDoS?

[saubeidl]

The problem is the people that sign our checks usually aren't technical, rational people.

The system isn't designed for technical, rational decision making.