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Month: June 2025

Lecture: Queueing theory on a cocktail napkin

On 2025/06/252025/07/03 By Dan SlimmonIn Monitoring, Problem-Solving, Statistics and probabilityLeave a comment

I couldn’t be prouder of “Queueing Theory on a Cocktail Napkin,” this lecture I gave at Antithesis in DC on June 10.

When I started to apply just a little queueing theory, it absolutely revolutionized my practice. If you’re responsible for the health of a software service, watch this talk.

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