USENIX Courses

Gearbox - A Hierarchical Packet Scheduler for Approximate Weighted Fair Queuing

10 ratings

Hierarchical packet scheduler for approximate weighted fair queuing, offering efficient bandwidth allocation and flow isolation in high-speed networks with low complexity and resource usage.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Democratizing Direct-to-Cell Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks

1 rating

Explores MOSAIC system for multi-tenant LEO satellites, enabling direct 4G/5G access globally. Introduces policy-embedded tokens for simplified, secure, and flexible satellite-user interactions.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Consent Management at Airbnb - Building a Scalable Platform for GDPR Compliance

1 rating

Explore Airbnb's Consent Management Platform, designed to address GDPR compliance and user privacy. Learn about its data model, API, and scalability for various consent scenarios.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Improving the SRE Experience for 10 Years as a Free, Open, and Automated Certificate Authority

1 rating

Explore the history of Let's Encrypt, its impact on HTTPS adoption, and how it has improved SRE experiences while issuing free TLS certificates to over 500 million websites.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Compliance and Regulatory Standards Are Not Incompatible with Modern Development Best Practices

1 rating

Debunking myths about regulatory constraints on modern software development practices, emphasizing compatibility between compliance standards and agile methodologies for competitive advantage.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

CAFault - Enhance Fault Injection Technique in Practical Distributed Systems via Abundant Fault-Dependent Configurations

1 rating

Discover CAFault, a testing framework that enhances fault injection in distributed systems by using configuration-aware testing to uncover hidden vulnerabilities and bugs.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building Service Ownership Using Documentation, Telemetry, and a Chance to Make Things Better

1 rating

Explore strategies for building distributed service ownership in software teams, focusing on documentation, telemetry, and empowering teams to drive improvements in system reliability and performance.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

An Evaluation of ECG Use in Cryptography for Implantable Medical Devices and Body Area Networks

1 rating

Evaluates ECG-based cryptography for medical devices, discussing security assumptions, randomness extraction, and potential vulnerabilities in authentication protocols using physiological data.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Analogy Cyber Security - From 0101 to Mixed Signals

1 rating

Explores threats to sensor integrity in smart devices and their impact on system security. Discusses EMI interference, vulnerabilities in voice-controlled systems, and potential defenses for improving sensor security.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Unlocking Unallocated Cloud Capacity for Long, Uninterruptible Workloads

Optimizing cloud resource utilization through predictive analysis of Harvest VMs, enabling efficient execution of long-running workloads at reduced costs while improving job completion times.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Why This Stuff Is Hard

Explore common challenges in system reliability and strategies for success. Gain insights into managing complexity and time pressure in production environments.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Turning an Incident Report into a Design Issue with TLA+

Explore how modeling-driven techniques and TLA+ can enhance postmortem analysis, uncover root causes, and improve system design in distributed database architectures.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Logs Told Us It Was DNS, It Looked like DNS, It Had to Be DNS, It Wasn't DNS

Unraveling a complex Kubernetes incident: from DNS suspicions to kernel-level insights, culminating in a surprising three-line code fix. Learn debugging techniques and unexpected system behaviors.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

An Organizational Response to Incidents - Designing for Smooth Coordination

Strategies for effective incident response coordination, focusing on follower roles and organizational preconditions. Insights to improve communication and collaboration during software outages.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Endgame of SRE

Explore sociotechnical engineering strategies for SREs to impact reliability beyond infrastructure, addressing team struggles, burnout, and priorities to enhance overall system performance.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk