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Chapter 16. Agile Infrastructure > Trading Zones and Apologies

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:


  

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