USENIX Courses

Gearbox - A Hierarchical Packet Scheduler for Approximate Weighted Fair Queuing

10 ratings

Hierarchical packet scheduler for approximate weighted fair queuing, offering efficient bandwidth allocation and flow isolation in high-speed networks with low complexity and resource usage.

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

Consent Management at Airbnb - Building a Scalable Platform for GDPR Compliance

1 rating

Explore Airbnb's Consent Management Platform, designed to address GDPR compliance and user privacy. Learn about its data model, API, and scalability for various consent scenarios.

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

Democratizing Direct-to-Cell Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks

1 rating

Explores MOSAIC system for multi-tenant LEO satellites, enabling direct 4G/5G access globally. Introduces policy-embedded tokens for simplified, secure, and flexible satellite-user interactions.

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

Building Service Ownership Using Documentation, Telemetry, and a Chance to Make Things Better

1 rating

Explore strategies for building distributed service ownership in software teams, focusing on documentation, telemetry, and empowering teams to drive improvements in system reliability and performance.

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

CAFault - Enhance Fault Injection Technique in Practical Distributed Systems via Abundant Fault-Dependent Configurations

1 rating

Discover CAFault, a testing framework that enhances fault injection in distributed systems by using configuration-aware testing to uncover hidden vulnerabilities and bugs.

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

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

1 rating

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

1 rating

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

An Evaluation of ECG Use in Cryptography for Implantable Medical Devices and Body Area Networks

1 rating

Evaluates ECG-based cryptography for medical devices, discussing security assumptions, randomness extraction, and potential vulnerabilities in authentication protocols using physiological data.

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

Empowering Azure Storage with RDMA

Exploring Azure's implementation of RDMA for storage, addressing challenges in regional deployment and achieving significant performance improvements and CPU savings.

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

Better Together - Jointly Optimizing ML Collective Scheduling and Execution Planning Using SYNDICATE

Optimizing ML training with SYNDICATE: A framework that minimizes communication bottlenecks and speeds up training for large-scale models through novel motif abstraction and joint optimization techniques.

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

Building Flexible, Low-Cost Wireless Access Networks With Magma

Magma: An open system for building affordable wireless networks in underserved areas, leveraging Internet design patterns and SDN principles to reduce costs and complexity while maintaining key cellular features.

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

Push-Button Reliability Testing for Cloud-Backed Applications with Rainmaker

Explore Rainmaker, a tool for reliability testing of cloud-backed applications. Learn about its fault injection techniques, automatic policies, and success in detecting bugs in popular software.

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

Understanding RDMA Microarchitecture Resources for Performance Isolation

Explores RDMA performance isolation challenges in cloud environments, presenting a model for RNIC resource usage and a test suite to evaluate isolation solutions, offering insights for future designs.

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

Fast, Approximate Vector Queries on Very Large Unstructured Datasets

Explore Auncel, a vector query engine for large datasets, offering bounded errors and latencies. Learn how it outperforms existing solutions in processing high-dimensional data efficiently.

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

Enabling Users to Control Their Internet

CRAB system enables users to control bandwidth allocation across incoming flows without ISP support, improving web page load times and video quality through a novel control loop at receiver devices.

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