You can always find out about upcoming talks open to all, by going to this webpage: https://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia/
here is one that we thought ugrads might be particularly interested in.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Computer Science & Engineering
TECH TALK
SPEAKER: Jeff Currier, Twitter
TITLE: Manageability Systems @Twitter: towards efficiency and
reliability
DATE: Thursday, June 6, 2013
TIME: 4:30pm
PLACE: CSE 403
ABSTRACT:
This talk will focus on the manageability systems that Twitter is building
to increase the overall reliability and efficiency of our services.
Further, practical applications of the techniques captured in this
substrate benefit the services that allow Twitter to operate at a massive
scale.
Speaker Bio:
Jeff Currier is a Engineering Manager in Twitter’s Seattle Engineering
office. He’s leading a team who is focused on building technologies that
enable service self healing, automatic load balancing of data systems and
making running services at scale more economical.