USENIX Courses

Global Capacity Management With Flux

Automated system for optimizing capacity distribution across global datacenters, using RPC tracing and service models to efficiently rebalance resources for thousands of services and products.

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

Effectively Scheduling Computational Graphs of Deep Neural Networks toward Their Domain-Specific Accelerators

Innovative approach for scheduling DNN computational graphs on domain-specific accelerators, optimizing resource utilization and enhancing performance through synergy between network and hardware architectures.

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

Core Slicing - Closing the Gap Between Leaky Confidential VMs and Bare-Metal Cloud

Explores core slicing, a novel approach to enhance cloud security by enabling multiple untrusted guest OSes to run on shared bare-metal hardware, addressing vulnerabilities in confidential VMs.

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

ExoFlow - A Universal Workflow System for Exactly-Once DAGs

ExoFlow: A universal workflow system enabling flexible recovery vs. performance tradeoffs within applications. Decouples execution from recovery, provides exactly-once semantics, and supports diverse workflow applications with optimized task communicatio…

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

Flor - An Open High Performance RDMA Framework Over Heterogeneous RNICs

Explore Flor, an innovative framework enabling high-performance RDMA across diverse network interface cards, addressing bandwidth imbalances and enhancing datacenter application efficiency.

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

AdaEmbed - Adaptive Embedding for Large-Scale Recommendation Models

Adaptive embedding system for large-scale recommendation models, reducing embedding size while maintaining accuracy. Improves deployment efficiency and model execution speed in industrial settings.

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

Cilantro - Performance-Aware Resource Allocation for General Objectives via Online Feedback

Explore Cilantro, an innovative system for performance-aware resource allocation in clusters, using online learning to optimize various scheduling objectives and improve user utilities.

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

Defcon - Preventing Overload with Graceful Feature Degradation

Explore Defcon, a system for improving large-scale Internet service availability through graceful feature degradation, enabling operators to manage overload conditions and enhance global product reliability.

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

NCC - Natural Concurrency Control for Strictly Serializable Datastores by Avoiding the Timestamp-Inversion Pitfall

Innovative concurrency control technique for datastores that leverages natural consistency to achieve minimal costs while guaranteeing strict serializability, avoiding common pitfalls and optimizing performance.

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

RON - One-Way Circular Shortest Routing to Achieve Efficient and Bounded-Waiting Spinlocks

Innovative spinlock method for multi-core processors, minimizing communication costs and achieving bounded waiting time through one-way circular routing, improving performance in both user and kernel spaces.

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

No Provisioned Concurrency - Fast RDMA-codesigned Remote Fork for Serverless Computing

Explore MITOSIS, a novel OS primitive enabling rapid remote container initialization for serverless platforms, reducing function latency and memory usage while improving state transfer in serverless workflows.

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

K9db - Privacy-Compliant Storage for Web Applications by Construction

Explore K9db, a MySQL-compatible database designed for automatic GDPR compliance. Learn how it simplifies data privacy management through explicit ownership and sharing semantics.

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

Characterizing Off-path SmartNIC for Accelerating Distributed Systems

Comprehensive study of off-path SmartNIC performance, exploring communication paths and proposing optimization strategies for distributed systems. Demonstrates significant improvements in file system and key-value store applications.

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

Triangulating Python Performance Issues with Scalene

Discover Scalene: a precise, low-overhead profiler for Python that tracks CPU, memory, and GPU usage. Learn how it helps optimize code and pinpoint performance bottlenecks.

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

Hyrax - Fail-in-Place Server Operation in Cloud Platforms

Innovative datacenter stack enabling servers with failed components to continue hosting VMs, reducing repair needs by 50-60% without impacting performance or scheduling in cloud platforms.

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