60TB.techAbout
I'm William Azada. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Maryville College and an AWS Solutions Architect certification. I've spent 20+ years in enterprise IT and systems architecture, designing infrastructure at scale, building automation platforms, and debugging the kind of production failures that happen at 3am when nobody else wants to be awake. I've worked across cloud infrastructure, MSP operations, AI workflows, and observability engineering.
I also produce and perform electronic music under aliases including FAFO and Will Azada. I've been DJing since before sync existed, building modular synth patches, sampling, and thinking about sound as a system with inputs, feedback loops, and emergent behavior. I came up on vinyl and unreliable equipment, and that shaped how I think about everything else.
I trade markets. I watch macro. I think about economics the way I think about distributed systems: as complex adaptive systems where the interesting behavior happens at the edges, under stress, and in the gaps between what the models predict and what actually occurs.
The name 60TB comes from a production database I investigated that had grown to that size under years of accumulated technical debt, poor schema decisions, and neglect. I identified it as a root cause of significant platform-wide performance problems, documented the issues, and brought them to the engineering team. The response was silence, then a layoff. The name is a reminder that the people who find the real problems aren't always the people who get thanked for it.
This site is where the longer-form writing lives. Shorter pieces go to LinkedIn and Instagram. The common thread across everything is systems thinking: the discipline of seeing how the parts connect, where the failure modes hide, and what the patterns look like when you zoom out far enough.
I'm based in Memphis, TN.