For sure. I hope we're all agreeing here :)

We've very strong believers that an effective replication strategy is just table stakes and that from there the real risks to durability are the "black swan" events that are much harder to model.

I gave at talk at Data@Scale recently where the main premise is about "Durability Theater" and how to combat it in a production storage system. In case you're interested: https://code.facebook.com/posts/253562281667886/data-scale-j...