USENIX Courses

Platforms in Everything - Analyzing Ground-Truth Data on the Anatomy and Economics of Bullet-Proof Hosting

Empirical study on Bullet-Proof Hosting provider Maxided, analyzing business model, supply chain, customers, and finances. Reveals shifts in BPH landscape and potential intervention points for disrupting cybercrime-supporting services.

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

Scalable Scanning and Automatic Classification of TLS Padding Oracle Vulnerabilities

Innovative TLS vulnerability scanning methodology reveals widespread CBC padding oracle vulnerabilities, challenging assumptions about their exploitability and highlighting significant security risks in web infrastructure.

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

The Art of The Scam - Demystifying Honeypots in Ethereum Smart Contracts

Explores honeypot smart contracts in Ethereum, their prevalence, and impact. Presents HoneyBadger tool for detecting honeypots, analyzing 2M+ contracts and identifying 690 honeypots with 240 victims.

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

Multi-Queue Fair Queuing

Introduces MQFQ, a fair and efficient scheduler for multi-queue systems, addressing fairness issues in high-speed devices while maintaining scalability and performance.

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

Your Coflow has Many Flows - Sampling them for Fun and Speed

Innovative coflow scheduling technique using flow sampling to estimate coflow size, improving performance and scalability for data-intensive applications in distributed computing environments.

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

Hodor - Intra-Process Isolation for High-Throughput Data Plane Libraries

Explores intra-process isolation for high-throughput data plane libraries, proposing protected libraries as a new OS abstraction to achieve safety and performance in kernel-bypass approaches for managing high-speed devices.

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

Zanzibar - Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System

Explore Google's Zanzibar, a global authorization system for storing and evaluating access control lists, offering scalability, consistency, and high performance across various services.

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

Scaling the Distributed Actor Runtime - PARTISAN

Presentation on PARTISAN, a runtime system for actor applications offering improved scalability and reduced latency through dynamic overlay selection, named channels, and affinitized parallelism.

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

Everyone Loves File - File Storage Service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Explore Oracle Cloud's File Storage Service architecture, featuring scalable block store, B-tree implementation, and nonblocking programming for efficient, elastic NFS service with predictable performance.

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

LegoOS - A Disseminated, Distributed OS for Hardware Resource Disaggregation

Explore LegoOS, a revolutionary distributed OS for disaggregated hardware resources in datacenters. Learn about its splitkernel model, improved resource utilization, and enhanced failure handling capabilities.

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

LXDs - Towards Isolation of Kernel Subsystems

Explores Lightweight Execution Domains (LXDs) as a solution for isolating kernel subsystems, enhancing security by confining potential exploits without significant modifications or performance impact.

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

Libmpk - Software Abstraction for Intel Memory Protection Keys

Explore libmpk, a software abstraction enhancing Intel MPK's security and scalability. Learn about its implementation, benefits, and applications in OpenSSL, JavaScript JIT, and Memcached.

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

Cross Continent Infrastructure Scaling at Instagram

Explore Instagram's global infrastructure scaling challenges and solutions, focusing on cross-continent deployment, latency issues, and strategies for managing stateful services.

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

Linux Memory Management at Scale - Under the Hood

Explore Linux memory management for reliable, large-scale systems. Learn about swap, cgroups, PSI, and memory protection from a Facebook SRE, debunking myths and offering expert insights.

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

Leading without Managing - Becoming an SRE Technical Leader

Explore technical leadership in SRE, focusing on strategic guidance without people management. Learn tactics for career growth, mentoring, and identifying impactful work opportunities.

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