Abstract

Data center infrastructures provide a lens for understanding the rise of resilience thinking, for grasping the pragmatism and promise of resilience as approach. Unable to anticipate every threat and lockout every contingency, developers of resilient infrastructure “design in” failure, automate monitoring and maintenance, and build capacity to flexibly adapt to new threats. In enacting resilience in the present, they anticipate possible futures, prototyping forms of future life. In this sense, infrastructures should also be understood as operational imaginaries – as systems that powerfully suggest a set of future possibilities by enacting them concretely in the present.

摘要

数据中心基础架构为理解弹性思维的兴起提供了一个镜头，可以抓住实用性和弹性方法的希望。弹性基础架构的开发人员无法预见每种威胁，无法锁定每一种意外情况，因此无法“设计”故障，自动进行监视和维护以及构建能力以灵活地适应新威胁。他们在制定当前的抗灾能力时，会预见可能的未来，并以此为原型设计未来生活。从这个意义上讲，基础设施也应被理解为运营中的虚构，即通过在当前具体实施而有力地暗示一系列未来可能性的系统。