If you were to ask yourself - what is the essence of any software system - what would you say? There are several things I can think of, such as clean code, DRY methods, integration testing, the technology being used, great design… Still if I had to pick between losing all of those, or just the data and almost my answer would be: “Protect the data”. https://blog.kodius.io/2017/04/14/protect-the-data/