Building the Data Center Infrastructure of Tomorrow

By Aiman JoeHanz
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Length4h 15m

About this audiobook

The cloud is not a cloud; it is a building with a landlord, a power bill, and a security fence. This book is about the machine behind that invisibility: the data center infrastructure, the third great utility of modern life, now growing faster than water or power ever did. World-class computation is engineered: sites chosen for electrons and fiber before they are ever buildings; shells built for renovation across generations of silicon; power chains rehearsed against their own catastrophe monthly; cooling plants at war with the chip's fever; networks of glass whose redundancy is audited in ditches; white spaces of standardized villages migrating rack by rack; operations cultures that turn vigilance into boring procedure; and a rulebook of certificates that lets strangers trust the unseeable.

Audiobook details

GenreEducation and Learning
Length4 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 12, 2020
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Title Page
2Introduction
3Chapter 1: The Server Landscape — What a Data Center Is
4Chapter 2: The Site — Land, Power, Water, and Fiber
5Chapter 3: The Building — The Shell Around a Machine
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6Chapter 4: Power — The Chain From the Grid to the Gram
7Chapter 5: Cooling — The War Against the Chip's Fever
8Chapter 6: The Network — The Crossroads of Glass
9Chapter 7: The White Space — Racks, Servers, and the Machine's Heart
10Chapter 8: Operations — The Human Vigilance
11Chapter 9: The Rules — Trust, Certificates, and the Machine's Legitimacy
12Chapter 10: The Long Run — The Machine's Hunger and the Planet's Arithmetic
13A Last Word
14Copyright
15About the Author
16About this Series
17Connect

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