What's a "RDBMS stakeholder" ?

(Hats off to aphyr for sure!)

The three layers of middlemanagement between engineers and whichever director owns this particular incarnation of RDS

a stakeholder is anyone who has any business at all with the system - customer, engineer, manager, etc.

RDBMS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database#RDBMS

I'd think anynone on the receiving end should be thrilled. Traditionally nobody survives Jepsen unscathed but getting it from Aphyr means you're being taken seriously.