In this podcast episode Greg introduces and welcomes Ayori Selassie as the new co-host to the BIT podcasts as well as a new member of the BIT organization.Ayori discusses with Greg, her recent experience in attending the Google SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) class in Mountain View.Greg Greenlee and Ayori Selassie talk Distributed System Design, building systems that scale at Google and offer tips on how you can engage in the emerging field of Site Reliability EngineeringWe also touch on the importance of attending tech conferences and how attending can benefit your skill set and technology career. (This also gave us a segway into our next podcast!!!)Web sites mentioned:http://www.blacksintechnology.net(Blacks In Technology)http://www.bitdigest.net(BIT Tech Digest)http://www.highscalability.com(High Scalability)http://www.youtube.com/user/hangops/videos(Hang Ops youtube channel)http://www.lanyrd.com(Lanyrd)https://www.derbycon.com/(DerbyCon)https://tito.io/distill/2013?release_id=um9zjsmycfo(Distill)