What It Actually Takes to Network a Live System That's Never Allowed to Go Offline

What It Actually Takes to Network a Live System That's Never Allowed to Go Offline

Published: September 4, 2026

Duration: 9:58

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Lessons from building transit networks that can never go offline: addressing as a 20-year decision, blast-radius switch design, and testing by breaking things.
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