16.4. Trading Zones and Apologies

Developers, sys admins, network engineers, and database administrators are all "technologists" with different expertise, and these coarse distinctions could be subdivided further. Building and maintaining a massive web application (remember, the infrastructure is the application) requires input and optimizations from all these perspectives.

"Trading zones" is a metaphor credited to Peter Galison's explanation of physics and engineering disciplines working together to produce particle detectors and radar: