Title: Engineering scalable and reliable systems.

Abstract: What does it take to serve traffic at a planet wide scale? Developing robust systems that serves traffic to millions of people is challenging. When designing systems at this scale, rare 1 in a million events happen almost on a daily basis. How do you design a system that is resilient to so many different types of failure while on a budget? Find this out and more on Nov 27th.

Bio: Mark Roth is an SFU alumni. He completed his Masters degree in 2012 under the supervision of Alexandra Fedorova; and has coauthored several papers in the area of parallel and multicore computing. After graduating, he worked at Microsoft on a product to help with the management of virtual machines. In the spring of this year, he switched over to Google to become a Site Reliability Engineer and now works on the reliability and performance of Google's ad management platform.