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Google Tech Talk @ Babes Bolyai University

Roland Szabo

Oct 9, 2015 — 1 min read

Good news everyone! I will give two presentations at the Babes Bolyai University in Cluj on the 21st of October. The first talk is aimed mostly at students and I will be talking about what I do as a Site Reliability Engineer and what it takes to maintain a large scale service up and running all the time. The second one is about Megastore, a database with strong consistency guarantees on a global scale.

If you are interested and want to come, please register using this form.

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