USENIX Courses

Improving the SRE Experience for 10 Years as a Free, Open, and Automated Certificate Authority

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Explore the history of Let's Encrypt, its impact on HTTPS adoption, and how it has improved SRE experiences while issuing free TLS certificates to over 500 million websites.

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

Compliance and Regulatory Standards Are Not Incompatible with Modern Development Best Practices

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Debunking myths about regulatory constraints on modern software development practices, emphasizing compatibility between compliance standards and agile methodologies for competitive advantage.

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

Anatomy of a Crime: Secure DevOps and Darknet Early Breach Detection

Explore real-world darknet security breaches and learn essential DevOps security practices to protect systems from sophisticated cyber attacks, with focus on Point of Sale vulnerabilities and prevention strategies.

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

Service-Oriented Data Grid: Beyond Storage Virtualization

Explore enterprise data grid evolution and storage virtualization trends, focusing on bridging implementation gaps between provider capabilities and consumer needs in modern IT organizations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Computing Challenges for CERN's Large Hadron Collider - Data Storage and Grid Computing

Explore CERN's Large Hadron Collider computing infrastructure, focusing on cluster management, data storage, and grid computing solutions for handling massive particle physics data generation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

BGP Prefix Hijacking and the Spam Wars - Network Layer Security Implications

Delve into BGP prefix hijacking's role in spam warfare, exploring how spammers exploit network routing to defeat blacklists and the concerning implications for IPv4 address manipulation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

So You Want to Be a Wizard - Essential Skills for Site Reliability Engineers

Discover practical strategies for becoming an effective SRE, from asking essential questions to mastering debugging tools and reading Linux kernel source code for problem-solving success.

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

Managing Terabytes of Data: Storage Solutions and Challenges

Discover practical solutions for managing terabyte-scale data storage, including mounting, configuration, backup strategies, and handling large-scale storage infrastructure challenges.

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

Care and Feeding of Data Processing Pipelines

Discover essential strategies for managing data processing pipelines, from preventing failures and monitoring data correctness to implementing canary deployments and auto-scaling mechanisms for robust system reliability.

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

Deploying Nagios in a Large Enterprise Environment

Discover scalability, security, and integration strategies for implementing Nagios monitoring systems in enterprise-scale deployments, including proprietary applications and closed devices.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Experiences with Scalable Network Operations at Akamai

Discover how Akamai manages its global content delivery network through automation, scaling strategies, and distributed systems management across 20,000+ servers in 72 countries.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Autonomic Administration - Introduction to Network Management and Future Technologies

Explore the future of network management through autonomic computing principles, focusing on innovative solutions for complex system administration challenges and emerging technologies.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Center Growing Pains - Environmental Challenges and Solutions

Discover strategies for managing data center growth challenges, power consumption, and environmental compliance through Sun Microsystems' innovative approaches and real-world experiences.

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

Should the Root Prompt Require a Road Test? Evaluating System Administrator Certification

Explore the concept of practical skill assessment for system administrators, comparing certification tests with hands-on evaluation methods for measuring core competencies and real-world abilities.

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

Using Throttling and Traffic Shaping to Combat Botnet Spam

Discover effective strategies for combating botnet spam through traffic shaping and throttling techniques, while understanding spammer behavior patterns and implementing practical connection management solutions.

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