Infrastructure as Raclette: Why I Installed a Dedicated 20A Circuit for Melting Cheese

Infrastructure as Raclette: Why I Installed a Dedicated 20A Circuit for Melting Cheese

A software engineer's tale of over-engineering his house: a dedicated 20A floor outlet for raclette machines, eight fibres to a garden office, and 5G6 electrical feeds. The lesson: in buildings, retrofitting is expensive, so provision the hard-to-change layer generously upfront. It's infrastructure engineering, but with a cheese icon on the electrical diagram.

It’s the same principle we apply in infrastructure engineering, except Terraform can’t fix your floor.

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