USENIX Courses

Reliability in Finance - Delivering Quality Market Data at Scale

Discover how Bloomberg's Reliability Engineers tackle complex market data challenges, ensuring high-quality financial data delivery amid global market volatility and chaos.

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

Quality Gates in Production - How We Turn OpenTelemetry Signals into Deployment Decisions

Discover how to build automated quality gates using OpenTelemetry signals to make deployment decisions, balancing velocity with reliability for critical infrastructure.

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

CPU Utilization - The Hidden Cost of Running Hot

Discover how CPU utilization impacts system performance through controlled experiments and derive a practical formula connecting utilization, latency, and capacity for optimization.

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

Practical DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) for SREs

Discover how to navigate EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act for finance sector SREs, covering compliance strategies and incident management best practices.

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

Lessons from a Year with Backstage - What Worked, What Didn't, and What's Next

Discover real-world insights from deploying Backstage across 40 teams in a regulated environment, including practical adoption strategies, engagement tactics, and lessons learned.

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

Cross-Platform Data Lineage with OpenLineage - A Foundational Layer for Data Reliability

Discover how OpenLineage standard enables end-to-end data pipeline observability, debugging, and reliability across platforms like Airflow, Spark, dbt, and Flink for modern Data & AI systems.

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

The Chicken or the Egg - Creating a Stable Preproduction Environment as a Public Cloud Provider

Discover how Akamai's SRE team built "Testcloud," a full production replica for safe testing, tackling isolation challenges and circular dependencies in cloud infrastructure.

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

Dashboards and Dragons - Reliability Magic for AI Platforms

Discover practical strategies for building reliable, scalable generative AI platforms using actionable SLOs, monitoring techniques, and open-source tools to tame infrastructure complexity.

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

Modernizing Incident Response with LLMs, RAG, and the MCP

Discover how to transform incident response using LLMs, RAG, and Model Context Protocol for faster resolution times while maintaining security controls in large-scale SRE environments.

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

From 4 Hours to 8 Minutes with AI Agents That Transform SRE Incident Response

Discover how AI Reliability Engineering agents automate incident response, reducing troubleshooting time from hours to minutes through specialized Terraform, GitOps, and validation agents.

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

Failover Without Fear - A Practical Guide to Active-Active Multi-Region Readiness

Discover how Mollie transformed from single to multi-region architecture on Google Cloud, covering database failover, load balancer upgrades, and disaster recovery strategies for resilient systems.

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

The Un-Incident - Extracting Value from the Gray Area of Incident Response

Explore how to extract valuable insights from "Un-Incidents" - those gray-zone events that don't qualify as formal incidents but reveal critical system gaps and learning opportunities.

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

Experimenting with AI-Driven Systems

Discover how to implement reliability mechanisms for AI experiments in large-scale systems, covering prevention, detection, and mitigation of issues in continuous A/B testing environments.

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

Speeding Up Terraform Caching with OverlayFS

Discover how OverlayFS solves Terraform plugin cache concurrency issues, cutting pipeline plan times by 90% through innovative caching strategies for faster infrastructure deployments.

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

Run, Walk, Crawl - How We Failed Our Way to SLO Readiness

Discover how Spring Health scaled site-reliability culture at a hyper-growth startup, learning from SLO adoption failures to create a readiness framework for reliability investments.

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