Infrastructure

Definition

The boring backend systems that make everything work but nobody cares about until they catastrophically fail at 2 AM on a Sunday. The unsung hero of technology.

Example Usage

We invested millions in our cloud infrastructure so our website could go down more reliably at scale.

Source: IT industry terminology

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