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

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 Software Engineer for Microsoft Development Center in 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. Chris is a passionate speaker, and has held this talk before!

Internships:

Microsoft Development Center Norway are looking for Summer Interns in Oslo, Trondheim and Tromsø, and are especially looking forward to meet students from Komplekse datasystemer (Algoritmer og datamaskiner).