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SUMMARY:Site Reliability Engineer - Katie Bell\, Google
DTSTART:20141023T120000Z
DTEND:20141023T130000Z
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CONTACT:Ekaterina Kochmar
DESCRIPTION:SREs (Site Reliability Engineers) are the software engineers r
 esponsible for ensuring that all of Google's services are super reliable a
 nd super fast\, all of the time. I'll be talking generally about what SREs
  do\, and the technical challenges involved in running a fault-tolerant an
 d reliable service at Google scale\, how outages happen and how to prevent
  them. Then I'll go into more detail about two of Google's distributed sto
 rage systems\, BigTable and Spanner\, the principles they were built on an
 d how they work to store and serve data at scale\, and how they break.\n\n
 \n*Short Bio*: Starting in Sydney as a Software Engineer on Google Docs\, 
 Katie has been working at Google for 6 years. After 3 of those years she t
 rained as a Site Reliability Engineer and started working on Google's larg
 e scale storage systems which store data for many of Google's products. Sh
 e later moved to Google in Switzerland where she is continuing as an SRE w
 orking on the storage systems for Google+.
LOCATION:Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building\, Lecture Theatre 2
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