Pingball
You know that Netflix, Spotify, Meta, YouTube and so on all have data centers storing content. You know that “cloud” is a thing. (Perhaps you even deploy and run applications in the cloud!) But how does a video that lives in a cloud data center somewhere in the middle of the high desert in Oregon end up on your phone in Oakland? How does it get there so fast? Pingball is a journey through the vast, endlessly fascinating physical infrastructure that’s become a vital organ of our entire civilization.
