# Planning in Bets: Risk Mitigation at Scale

DevFeed: [Planning in Bets: Risk Mitigation at Scale](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/planning-in-bets-risk-mitigation-at-scale-1553.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/risk-mitigation-at-scale>)

Author: Kathryn Tang

Published: 2022-12-06T22:07:13Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>)

Tags: [business](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [operational](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/operational.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [technology-investments](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology-investments.md>)

## AI overview

This Shopify Engineering article presents a high-level risk mitigation process for large-scale infrastructure and high-traffic events such as Black Friday Cyber Monday. It explains how teams identify risks through broad input and "what could go wrong" exercises, prioritize risks according to business importance, likelihood, and severity, assign ownership, and empower appropriate decision makers.

## Source excerpt

What do you do with a finite amount of time to deal with an infinite number of things that can go wrong? This post breaks down a high-level risk mitigation process into four questions that can be applied to nearly any scenario in order to help you make the best use of your time and resources available.