Infrastructure as Cattle
Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations
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A phrase emphasizing that infrastructure should be treated as replaceable and standardized rather than cherished and manually maintained like unique pets. In engineering slang, this mindset is central to modern automation and resilience thinking.
In plain English: Treating infrastructure as standardized replaceable units instead of unique precious machines.
Example: "They finally got serious about infrastructure as cattle when replacing a broken node became cheaper than logging into it and nursing it back to health by hand."