Designing Data-Intensive Applications contains a joke about datacenters in space, since at the time of writing, that seemed like an absurd thing to even contemp... (opens in new tab)

Designing Data-Intensive Applications contains a joke about datacenters in space, since at the time of writing, that seemed like an absurd thing to even contemplate. And yet, here we are, with the biggest ever IPO prospectus promising orbital datacenters. I guess I'll have to update that paragraph.