Bio: "CTO and Security Specialist @ Authress

Warren focuses on technology that helps teams automate security implementations. He has journeyed through many different locations, technologies, and industries from Health Care IT in Wisconsin to E-Commerce in Switzerland. Now, he is an AppSec specialist and CTO at Authress, building tools for seamless security, authentication, and authorization. He enjoys solving product and technical challenges, and ultimately delivering long term business impact by eliminating common obstacles."

L8 Conf talks

Meeting Impossible SLAs: How we made our uptime 99.999%

"Running critical components requires a completely different mindset when the required uptime is five nines. Can a service even have a 99.999% uptime guarantee? It's easy to promise, but delivering on that is something else. What works at two or three nines can't work when components become critical. The math actually tells us this.

You'll get a full review of how we managed to promise such a high up time, if it is even possible to make it happen, and how they think about it. From this talk attendees will learn key trade-offs in elevating the reliability of their solutions.

Key Takeaways:

• The core components of a highly reliable solution
• Lessons learned in the process
• Architecture strategies to increase the reliability