Jonah Edwards gives insight into the Internet Archive Infrastructure.

In this blog post, the author shows some ways in which money is wasted on IT infrastructure.

We have grown from a handful of regions to 15 locations around the world. Even as the demands increase, we are bound by hard physical constraints of power and optics supply availability. Because of these dual pressures of increasing demand and physical constraints, we decided to rethink and transform our data center network from top to bottom, from topologies to the fundamental building blocks used within them. In this post, we’ll share the story of this transformation over the last two years.