1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Act I — What you stand on
    1. What a lunch in Spain taught me about digital infrastructures
    2. The Essence of Digital Infrastructures
    3. Elements of the Digital World
    4. Execution Environments
    5. How I Got Started in Computer Networks
    6. Cloud Computing
    7. Shared Services Lead to Conflicts
    8. Things Break at Scale
    9. Deployment Diagrams
    10. Promise Theory
    11. Contracts are complementary promises
  4. Act II — Why the deal was good
    1. Controlling Cloud Sprawl in 2012
    2. Provider Value
    3. What is the value of information?
    4. Value in Process Improvement
    5. Non-Monetary Values
    6. Games of value and power
    7. The Prisoner's Dilemma
    8. Agile Requires Cloud
    9. Multiple Ways to Go Cloud
    10. Business Model Canvas for IaaS Providers
    11. Business Model Canvas for SaaS Providers
  5. Act III — Then the machines started promising
    1. Network Management Automation - the DHCP case
    2. Control Through Feedback Loops
    3. The Automation Business Case
    4. Systematically applying technology
    5. Promise to Update
    6. A Small Example of Cloud Native Development
    7. What are AI Digital Infrastructures?
    8. AI Roles and Responsibilities
    9. Example: an AI-Assisted Voicebot
  6. Act IV — Who is in charge now
    1. Introduction to Power
    2. The moral necessity of talking about power
    3. Positions of Power in IT
    4. Power Flows
    5. Where the buck stops
    6. Governance over IT, an example
    7. Organization Size Matters - Dunbar's number
    8. Software Dissemination
    9. Who made podcasting big?
    10. International Actors
    11. Digital Autonomy: the Actors
  7. Act V — Staying in control
    1. How My Site Got Hacked
    2. Introduction to Risk
    3. Who Suffers?
    4. Information Security Assets
    5. Lean Risk and Economics
    6. Data, Risk, or Controls: where to start?
    7. Compliance is a Risk
    8. Retrofitting Zero Trust on an existing application: an illustration
    9. Why lawyers need to understand cloud
    10. Technology architecture for non-techies
    11. Digital autonomy: The risks
    12. Digital autonomy: Autarky
    13. Digital autonomy: Controls
    14. A guide to digital sovereignty, autonomy, and business resilience
  8. The Journey Continues
    1. A Unified Framework

This is a living book, updated in conversation with my clients and students