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Infrastructure is quietly heroic, and deserves to be seen that way.
@[email protected] Engineering (including infrastructure) is quietly heroic.
Recommended viewing:
City of Ember (2008)
-a story where the heroes are anonymous long-dead engineers
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"Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
--Kurt Vonnegut
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i fkn lurv infra. really. it's fascinating. it is culture, distilled to its essence.
@mattblaze have you read @debcha’s delightful How Intrastructure Works: Inside the Systems that Shape our World?
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612711/how-infrastructure-works-by-deb-chachra/
@[email protected] @[email protected] (And I didn't know she was here - thanks for the pointer!)
@c0dec0dec0de @debcha Yes! Terrific.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Thank you both!