USENIX Courses

Creating a Code Review Culture

Explore best practices for implementing and improving code review processes, focusing on organizational culture, author communication, and reviewer strategies for high-quality software development.

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

Keeping the Balance - Internet-Scale Load Balancing Demystified

Comprehensive overview of load balancing techniques across network layers, exploring technologies and tradeoffs for fast, reliable multi-region services at Internet scale.

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

Zero to SRE

Transforming junior engineers into SREs: creating a supportive environment, fostering a 'Culture of Error', encouraging mentorship, and prioritizing skill development for successful transitions and career growth.

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

SRE Classroom - How to Design a Distributed System in 3 Hours

Interactive workshop on designing distributed systems, covering scaling, failure handling, reliability, and consistency. Participants apply concepts to real-world scenarios using cloud components.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

What Breaks Our Systems - A Taxonomy of Black Swans

Explore categories of unforeseen, catastrophic system failures and strategies to fortify against them, including capacity testing, incident management, and communication.

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

Testing in Production at Scale

Explore real-world insights on implementing testing in production for large-scale microservices, focusing on architecture, capacity planning, and infrastructure components.

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

The Curse of SRE Autonomy and How to Manage It

Explores challenges of SRE autonomy, tool diversity, and development duplication. Presents solutions using a widely-adopted internal tool's history, addressing selection autonomy and automation strategies.

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

Complexity - The Crucial Ingredient in Your Kitchen

Explore how software engineering can learn from NASA's Challenger incident, drawing parallels to modern reliability challenges and navigating complexity in system architecture.

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

Capacity Prediction in External Services

Learn to predict resource exhaustion in external systems using linear regression, enabling proactive planning and sizing for improved application performance.

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

Optimizing for Learning

Explore cognitive science techniques to enhance SRE learning, incident response, and team collaboration. Optimize human observability for better system understanding and problem-solving.

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

Lessons Learned in Black Box Monitoring 25,000 Endpoints

Explore black box monitoring of 25,000 government endpoints, learning strategies to monitor resistant systems and improve digital services across the US government.

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

One on One SRE

Explore GitHub's innovative 1:1 SRE outreach and incident debrief programs, designed to foster a culture of resilience through empathy and psychological safety, enhancing organizational reliability.

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

The Storage Architecture of Intel's Data Management Platform

Intel's DMP storage architecture employs Ethernet-based fabric, disaggregated storage, and Kubernetes management. It offers NVMe-oF remote volumes and local Optane DCPM volumes, optimized for different I/O patterns and managed by LINBIT's storage orchest…

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

Fast Erasure Coding for Data Storage - A Comprehensive Study of the Acceleration Techniques

Comprehensive study on accelerating erasure coding for data storage, exploring optimization techniques, bitmatrix design, and vectorization to improve computation efficiency and performance in various scenarios.

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

Large-Scale Graph Processing on Emerging Storage Devices

Explores efficient graph processing on emerging storage devices, proposing a new partitioning framework that leverages improved random access capabilities for 2X better performance than state-of-the-art solutions.

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