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This lecture is aimed at students who start the Master's program now, either from KTH or from another university.

Slides from this lecture

This lecture is aimed at students who have not studied at KTH before.

Because of a schedule clash with the AI course this lecture has been moved from September 11 to September 17, 13.15-15.00, in seminar room 1537, Lindstedtsvägen 3, level 5.

Big Brains, Big Data, and Design to Test Cloud Services at Scale, Chris Mitchell, Microsoft

This voluntary inspirational talk is open to all interested students. It takes place on September 24, 17.15-18.00, in the lecture hall E1. After the talk you may stay for a question and answer session.

Abstract

Unit and functional tests alone aren't enough to test large cloud services at scale.  Cloud services not only need monitoring, but they also need continual testing.  We will explore use of big data and deep technical understanding to verify a cloud service is working on each and every request.  This big data puzzle is filled with lots of ambiguity, very messy and heterogeneous data, and a dynamic and changing datacenter and codebase.  Obstacles include how to gather all the data we need to make product decisions, respect privacy, and not drown in useless data.

About the Speaker

Chris Mitchell is a Principal Development Engineer for Microsoft Developer Center Norway focusing on search technologies.  Prior to moving to Oslo, Norway, Chris worked at Microsoft in Redmond, WA on Microsoft Exchange Server focusing on performance, scalability, and optimization of both enterprise and cloud services with special emphasis on disk I/O and storage, server to server networking, and optimization of managed code (C#).  Chris studied Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his hobbies include amateur radio and modernist cooking.

Programkollegium 26 mars kl 15.15 i sal E1
Fri diskussion om D-programmet och dess utveckling för alla lärare och D-teknologer.

Note: this is only for students of the five year Computer Science and Engineering program.

Information about the second year, the elective courses and the degree project.

Introduction to the second year.

Information about the degree project (exjobb).

Program meeting (programkollegium) of the D program (the master of science in engineering program Computer Science and Engineering), March 31 15.15-17.00 in room E1 (only for students of the D program).

Varje teknolog och lärare är välkommen att diskutera programmets nutid och framtid.

How to pass the Google code interview

How does the technical interview process work at Google (and other similar companies)? What are they looking for in candidates? What common mistakes do people make at interviews? What makes an interview question good or bad? What is a good interview? In this talk, Olof and Johan from Google explains the technical interview process and what you can do to prepare for it.

Speakers: Johan Wikström, Software engineer, and Olof Lindholm, Teach lead.

The talk will start at 15:15 and last about 60 minutes. Then there will be a question answering session. 

This is a non-compulsory activity of the prosamm course.