FalconIO replaces static runbooks with BC Manifests — versioned, topology-aware resilience declarations that execute via Pulumi, measure actual recovery against declared targets, integrate directly with incident management, and generate compliance evidence continuously.
RTO and RPO are commitments made by a person who had no mechanism to validate them against actual system topology. When the incident happens, the number is a guess.
DR tests are scheduled events — the gap between tests is exactly when failure mode drift accumulates. The plan is validated once, then becomes stale immediately.
ScyllaDB, CockroachDB, Redpanda — failover ordering depends on cross-system dependency graphs that every standard DR template assumes away. Your stack is not generic. Your DR shouldn't be either.
Manual runbooks demand sequential human decision-making under maximum operational stress, with context spread across tools that were never designed to work together.
When a DR event also creates an incident, context must be assembled manually between two separate tools while the clock runs. This friction costs MTTR points every time.
ISO 22301 and SOC 2 evidence is assembled retrospectively, under audit pressure, from incomplete records that were never designed to be compliance artefacts.
A BC Manifest is a versioned declaration stored in CockroachDB alongside the topology graph it describes. It specifies the service tier it covers, the declared RTO and RPO, the downstream dependency ordering for recovery sequencing, the Pulumi stacks that execute the failover, and the compliance artefact it generates as evidence.
It is not documentation. It is an executable, testable, topology-linked specification of how your system recovers. Pulumi executes BC Manifests — not Crossplane. Failover is imperative, sequenced, and conditional on observed state. Crossplane's reconciliation model handles steady-state management after recovery is confirmed.
FalconIO generates compliance artefacts from operational reality — not from documentation written for the audit. When an auditor arrives, you export. You do not reconstruct.
Maintained, reviewed resilience posture across time. Proof that declarations are kept current and reviewed, not written once and forgotten.
Continuous DR validation with scheduled and ad-hoc test records. Proof that you test your resilience, not just describe it.
Automated telemetry correlation with detection, response, and recovery quality. Proof of operational response capability — from real incidents, not simulations.
Commitments are measurable and are measured. Every activation and test records actual recovery time against declared target — divergence triggers a review ticket.
Recovery is platform-executed, not improvised. Every automated action logged with timestamp, decision rationale, and outcome state.
Controlled infrastructure change process — from the incident management module. Proof that every infrastructure change is tracked, approved, and auditable.