Google SRE - Engineering Reliability

Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is responsible for running the company's services with high quality standards. These services include Web Search, GMail, Youtube, Google+, Google Maps and many others. The talk explains the purpose and challenges that SRE faces.

The talk content is aligned for students in the following courses: Distributed Systems and Server-side Web Development; it will be beneficial for students in Transaktioiden hallinta, Seminar on Distributed Algorithms, and Software Architectures.

All students and faculty members are welcome!

Bio

Heikki Orsila, Site Reliability Engineer

Heikki works as a site reliability engineer at Google. In this role, he focuses on keeping services running without interruptions, increasing the reliability of services and optimizing the use of resources. He has been at Google since 2011.

Heikki has a PhD in computer systems from Tampere University of Technology (TUT). His research interests include automatic parallelization in distributed computing, computer systems and automated system-on-chip design tools. He earned a Master's degree in 2004, also from TUT, where he graduated with honors.