Interested in learning more about Google? Come hear it from a Googler!
On the 21st of November the Department of Computer Science, University of Nicosia, will be hosting a Tech Talk by Google followed by a Google interview workshop on campus for you to learn more about Google and the opportunities offered to students. We hope to meet you there.
Check out the details below and register for the event HERE, if you’re interested in Google opportunities make sure to include a soft copy of your resume!
What: Google Tech Talk @ University of Nicosia
Title: Storage, Processing and Reliability on Google's Distributed Systems
Speaker: Constantinos Neophytou, Google
When: 21 November 2016, 2:30-3:30pm
Who: All Computer Science and Engineering students, but anyone with an interest in software development is welcome!
Where: UNESCO Amphitheater
Host: Athena Stassopoulou
Abstract:
Organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful requires technologies that are able to handle petabytes of data quickly and reliably. This talk focuses on three crucial aspects of Google's infrastructure: storage, processing and reliability. We will present popular technologies within Google, giving an overview of their principles and main use cases. We will cover distributed storage solutions including GFS (distributed file system), Bigtable (distributed multi-dimensional sorted map), Spanner and F1 (globally distributed databases). Processing solutions that will be covered include MapReduce, Flume (distributed processing of batch data), and MillWheel (distributed processing of streaming data). Finally, we discuss techniques which are used to ensure 24/7 availability for services which use the above technologies, and in general all Google services.
Speaker’s bio:
Constantinos Neophytou received a BA degree in Computer Science from Dartmouth College in NH, USA in 2006. He later spent a year in India working on a personal project, after which he moved to the UK and received a PgC from Bristol University before starting his first job at Bloomberg in 2008. At Bloomberg he worked on the internal messaging system, which delivers upwards of 200 million emails a day in real-time. In 2011 he started working for Morgan Stanley, developing high-frequency trading connectivity software, focusing on sub-millisecond processing and message delivery. In August 2012 he started his current role at Google, which is Software Engineer in Site Reliability Engineering for the Ads Pipeline team, responsible for several pipelines, the biggest of which is the Google Analytics logs processing and aggregation.
