We often hear talks of "scale" and "reliability", mostly based on personal experience and lessons learned. What can Mathematics tell us about reliability and scale? Can math help us scale our systems and companies? It turns out that failure models, probability, statistics and other domains can help our analysis and provide insights.
Avishai is a veteran Ops and a survivor of many production skirmishes. Currently masquerading as the CTO of Fewbytes, Avishai help companies deal with web era operations and scale. In his spare time Avishai is spreading weird ideas and conspiracy theories such as DevOps.