Around the World in Eighty Data Centres

Latency, resilience, and the civilised panic of global infrastructure

Jules Verne · 10 July 2026

A circumnavigation of the globe in which every millisecond is accounted for.

Verne provides an itinerary for systems that must operate across regions, jurisdictions, and inconvenient oceans. The journey covers replication strategies, failover design, data residency, and the melancholy fact that distance remains undefeated by optimism.

Contents

1. The Reform Club Latency Wager
2. Replication by Rail, Steamer, and Fibre
3. Passepartout Misconfigures a Region
4. Crossing the International Date Line with Consistent Writes

Published by Austenpunk, the distinguished imprint for engineers who believe that every production incident would be improved by a stronger sense of narrative irony.

This essential volume combines literary feeling, technical anxiety, and just enough documentation to suggest that somebody once understood the system.