Systems Administration Courses

USENIX

What SRE Could Be - Systems Reliability Engineering

Explore the evolution of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and its potential future as a systems thinking-based discipline for managing complex software production environments.

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

USENIX

It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware

Keynote address exploring the need for operating systems research to re-engage with modern hardware realities, proposing strategies to address the disconnect between OS design and current technology.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Wireless Attacks on Aircraft Instrument Landing Systems

Investigates vulnerabilities in aircraft instrument landing systems to wireless attacks using software-defined radio, demonstrating potential for spoofing signals and causing off-runway landings in low-visibility conditions.

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

USENIX

Cross-Dataset Time Series Anomaly Detection for Cloud Systems

Innovative approach combining transfer and active learning for detecting anomalies in cloud systems using limited labeled data, improving efficiency in maintaining service availability.

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

USENIX

Why Are Distributed Systems So Hard?

Explore the challenges of distributed systems, including CAP theorem myths, network partitions, consensus algorithms, and human factors, with cat-illustrated examples.

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

USENIX

OpenEC - Toward Unified and Configurable Erasure Coding Management in Distributed Storage Systems

Unified framework for deploying erasure coding solutions in distributed storage systems, simplifying integration and optimizing repair performance.

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

USENIX

SLO Burn - Reducing Alert Fatigue and Maintenance Cost in Systems of Any Size

Discover strategies to reduce alert fatigue and maintenance costs in systems of any size using Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and symptom-based alerting with Prometheus.

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

USENIX

Perseus - A Fail-Slow Detection Framework for Cloud Storage Systems

Innovative framework for detecting and analyzing fail-slow failures in cloud storage systems, reducing tail latency and providing insights into root causes through large-scale dataset analysis.

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

USENIX

ROLEX - A Scalable RDMA-oriented Learned Key-Value Store for Disaggregated Memory Systems

Scalable RDMA-oriented learned key-value store for disaggregated memory systems, improving performance on dynamic workloads and addressing challenges in data storage and retrieval.

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

USENIX

BlackBox - A Container Security Monitor for Protecting Containers on Untrusted Operating Systems

Innovative container security architecture using a trusted monitor to protect data confidentiality and integrity from untrusted operating systems, with minimal performance impact.

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

USENIX

Data-Parallel Actors - A Programming Model for Scalable Query Serving Systems

Explore data-parallel actors, a programming model for building scalable query serving systems, offering simplified development and enhanced functionality for distributed data processing.

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

IEEE

Anti-Tamper Radio - System-Level Tamper Detection for Computing Systems

Explore system-level tamper detection for computing systems using anti-tamper radio technology. Learn innovative approaches to enhance security and protect against physical attacks on sensitive hardware.

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

IEEE

TASHAROK - Using Mechanism Design for Enhancing Security Resource Allocation in Interdependent Systems

Explore mechanism design for optimizing security resource allocation in interconnected systems, enhancing overall protection and addressing interdependencies.

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

IEEE

RT-TEE - Real-time System Availability for Cyber-physical Systems using ARM TrustZone

Explore real-time system availability for cyber-physical systems using ARM TrustZone technology, focusing on enhancing security and performance in critical applications.

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

IEEE

Targeted Adversarial Examples for Black Box Audio Systems

Exploring techniques to generate adversarial examples for audio systems, combining genetic algorithms and gradient estimation to achieve high attack success rates while maintaining audio similarity.

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