USENIX Courses

The Pandemic and The Classroom - Enabling Education for Millions

Explore how Microsoft Teams adapted to enable remote education for millions during COVID-19, discussing challenges, solutions, and engineering strategies for large-scale online learning.

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

A Fresh Look at Operational Debt

Explore a new model of operational debt in SRE, focusing on process gaps and risk. Learn to prioritize and address issues for improved service reliability and team collaboration.

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

DeepSketch - A New Machine Learning-Based Reference Search Technique for Post-Deduplication Delta Compression

Explores DeepSketch, a machine learning-based technique for post-deduplication delta compression in storage systems, improving data reduction efficiency through enhanced reference search accuracy.

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

Operational Characteristics of SSDs in Enterprise Storage Systems - A Large-Scale Field Study

Comprehensive field study analyzing operational characteristics of SSDs in enterprise storage systems, covering performance, lifespan, write amplification, and NAND usage rates across nearly 2 million drives.

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

Removing Double-Logging with Passive Data Persistence in LSM-tree Based Relational Databases

Explores a novel solution to remove double-logging in LSM-tree based relational databases, improving performance and efficiency while maintaining data reliability and fast recovery.

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

Hydra - Resilient and Highly Available Remote Memory

Resilient remote memory system with low latency, high availability, and efficient erasure coding. Improves performance-efficiency tradeoff and reduces data loss probability under correlated failures.

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

FusionFS - Fusing I/O Operations using CISCOps in Firmware File Systems

Explores FusionFS, a firmware-level filesystem leveraging near-storage computation to reduce I/O bottlenecks through CISCOps, offering improved performance and faster recovery for applications.

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

InfiniFS - An Efficient Metadata Service for Large-Scale Distributed Filesystems

Explore InfiniFS, an efficient metadata service for large-scale distributed filesystems, addressing challenges like load balancing, path resolution, and near-root hotspots.

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

ScaleXFS - Getting Scalability of XFS Back on the Ring

Explores XFS filesystem scalability issues in manycore systems, proposing techniques like Double Committed Item List and Per-core In-memory Logging to enhance performance and reduce contention.

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

Practicably Boosting the Processing Performance of BFS-like Algorithms on Semi-External Graph System via I-O-Efficient Graph Ordering

Explores innovative techniques to enhance BFS-like algorithm performance on semi-external graph systems, focusing on I/O efficiency improvements through strategic graph data pre-processing.

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

PAIO - General, Portable I/O Optimizations With Minor Application Modifications

Explore PAIO, a framework for implementing portable I/O policies and optimizations across different applications with minimal code changes, improving performance and resource management in data-centric systems.

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

FORD - Fast One-sided RDMA-based Distributed Transactions for Disaggregated Persistent Memory

Explore efficient distributed transactions for disaggregated persistent memory using FORD, a system leveraging one-sided RDMA to improve throughput and reduce latency in remote memory pools.

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

NyxCache - Flexible and Efficient Multi-tenant Persistent Memory Caching

Flexible multi-tenant persistent memory caching framework for efficient resource management, QoS guarantees, and performance isolation in cloud environments.

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

ctFS - Replacing File Indexing with Hardware Memory Translation through Contiguous File Allocation for Persistent Memory

Innovative file system design leveraging hardware memory translation for persistent memory, enhancing performance by eliminating indexing overhead and improving efficiency in file operations.

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

HTMFS - Strong Consistency Comes for Free with Hardware Transactional Memory in Persistent Memory File Systems

Explore hardware-software cooperation for high-performance, strongly consistent persistent memory file systems using Hardware Transactional Memory, overcoming traditional trade-offs between speed and data integrity.

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