USENIX Courses

Software Networking and Interfaces on Linux

Comprehensive overview of Linux network interfaces, from traditional to modern cloud-native types. Explores VMs, containers, and service meshes, aiding in debugging cloud platforms.

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

Code-Yellow - Helping Operations Top-Heavy Teams the Smart Way

Explore LinkedIn's "Code Yellow" process for identifying and supporting struggling teams, with insights on root causes and organizational strategies for improvement.

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

SRE & Product Management - How to Level up Your Team and Career by Thinking like a Product Manager

Discover strategies to enhance SRE teams by adopting product management principles, focusing on user-centric approaches to build scalable, opinionated, and usable platforms and tooling for engineers and developers.

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

Getting Started with Observability Lab - Opentracing, Prometheus, and Jaeger

Hands-on lab exploring observability tools for cloud-native applications. Install and use Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger to monitor Kubernetes clusters and instrument microservices for improved troubleshooting and diagnostics.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Differences in SRE Implementations across Companies

Explore diverse SRE implementations across companies in this interactive session. Share experiences and gain insights into varied approaches to Site Reliability Engineering in different organizational contexts.

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

Why Are Distributed Systems So Hard?

Explore the challenges of distributed systems, including CAP theorem myths, network partitions, consensus algorithms, and human factors, with cat-illustrated examples.

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

Tracing, Fast and Slow - Digging into and Improving Your Web Service's Performance

Explore techniques for tracing and improving web service performance, including black & white box tracing, distributed systems tracing, and various tools to measure and enhance service efficiency.

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

Shipping Software with an SRE Mindset

Explore how SRE techniques can be applied to on-premise software delivery, enhancing construction, packaging, and shipment processes for improved reliability and customer satisfaction.

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

Lightning Talks

Lightning talks on diverse SRE topics: incident response, distributed systems, resource management, automation, operational maturity, and monitoring. Insights from industry experts on improving reliability and efficiency.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Fault Tree Analysis Applied to Apache Kafka

Explore fault tree analysis techniques to enhance Apache Kafka cluster resilience, drawing insights from Lyft's experience in bulletproofing their deployments.

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

Latency SLOs Done Right

Explore correct approaches to calculating latency SLOs using histograms and mathematically accurate quantiles, improving service level objectives for more effective monitoring and performance management.

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

OpenEC - Toward Unified and Configurable Erasure Coding Management in Distributed Storage Systems

Unified framework for deploying erasure coding solutions in distributed storage systems, simplifying integration and optimizing repair performance.

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

SPEICHER - Securing LSM-based Key-Value Stores Using Shielded Execution

Secure key-value storage system using shielded execution, providing confidentiality, integrity, and data freshness. Implements authenticated LSM data structure and asynchronous trusted counters for enhanced security on untrusted hosts.

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

Orion - A Distributed File System for Non-Volatile Main Memory and RDMA-Capable Networks

Explores a novel distributed file system design optimized for non-volatile main memory and RDMA networks, achieving high performance for metadata and data access while maintaining byte addressability.

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

FlowBlaze - Stateful Packet Processing in Hardware

Innovative hardware-based solution for stateful packet processing, enabling high-speed network functions with low latency and power consumption using Extended Finite State Machines on programmable NICs.

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