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Deb Chachra: How Infrastructure Works (2023, Penguin Publishing Group) 5 stars

A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, …

I’m loving the beauty of “plan for energy abundance “.

I also love the thoughtful discussion of how systems can be robust and reliable through redundancy. And how we need more slack in systems to plan for resilience as well.

In my world of distributed systems we do a lot to plan for capacity and available slack in systems. Making sure you have slack in a system is incredibly important because shocks to it aren’t linear.