USENIX Courses

Credence: Augmenting Datacenter Switch Buffer Sharing with ML Predictions

Innovative approach to improve datacenter switch performance using machine learning predictions for buffer sharing, enhancing throughput and reducing flow completion times significantly.

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

Towards Intelligent Automobile Cockpit via a New Container Architecture

Innovative container architecture for intelligent automobile cockpits using low-cost chips. Integrates safety-critical and multimedia functions, offering efficient resource utilization and scalability.

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

Optimizing Spot Instance Savings for Deadline-Sensitive Jobs

Optimizing cloud costs using spot instances while meeting deadlines through strategic on-demand instance backup. A novel policy outperforms greedy approaches, achieving significant savings across various workloads and conditions.

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

Solving Max-Min Fair Resource Allocations Quickly on Large Graphs

Innovative algorithms for faster, fairer resource allocation in large-scale networks, improving WAN traffic engineering and cluster scheduling with theoretical guarantees and practical benefits.

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

Gemino: Practical and Robust Neural Compression for Video Conferencing

Innovative neural compression system for video conferencing, enhancing quality at low bitrates. Upsamples low-res frames with high-frequency details from reference images, scaling to 720p-like resolutions.

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

Resiliency at Scale: Managing Google's TPUv4 Machine Learning Supercomputer

Explore Google's TPUv4 supercomputer infrastructure, focusing on fault resiliency, dynamic reconfiguration, and high system availability for machine learning training at massive scale.

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

Parcae: Proactive, Liveput-Optimized DNN Training on Preemptible Instances

Optimize DNN training costs using preemptible cloud instances with Parcae, a system that proactively adjusts parallelization strategies based on predicted resource changes, improving performance and scalability.

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

Large-Scale Deployment of Data Center TCP (DCTCP) - Challenges and Experiences

Deployment experiences of DCTCP in large-scale data centers, highlighting performance improvements, unexpected challenges, and open research questions in network congestion control.

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

Securing and Standardizing Data Rights Requests with a Data Rights Protocol

Explore the Data Rights Protocol, a standardized approach to streamline and secure consumer data rights requests, improving efficiency for both consumers and companies.

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

Privacy for All: Achieving Inclusive Privacy in the Digital Age

Explore inclusive privacy design, considering diverse user needs and identities. Learn how privacy intersects with various identity markers and examine case studies for practical implementation.

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

Counting with STAR: Shipping a Privacy-Preserving Telemetry System to Millions of Users

Explore Brave's STAR system: an efficient, privacy-preserving telemetry solution. Learn about its development, scalability, and real-world applications in data collection with tunable privacy guarantees.

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

Protecting User Privacy in Private Set Intersection - A Journey Toward Mitigating User Tracking

Explore DPCA-PSI, a novel protocol enhancing privacy in Private Set Intersection. Learn how it securely computes intersection statistics while preserving differential privacy, mitigating user tracking risks in ad measurement and data sharing.

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

Cookie Infrastructure at Meta - Managing Consent and Compliance

Explore Meta's cookie management system, featuring a central schema, enforced API, and Content-Security-Policy headers for robust control and compliance with user preferences.

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

Looking Beyond Prompts for Permissions in Chrome

Exploring challenges with web permission prompts and innovative UI patterns to enhance user control and decision-making in Chrome's security features.

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

Evolution of Privacy Pass at Cloudflare

Explore Privacy Pass at Cloudflare: balancing user privacy and abuse prevention. Learn about emerging protocols, real-world applications, and ongoing developments in privacy-enhancing technologies.

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