USENIX Courses

Low Context DevOps - Improving SRE Team Culture through Defaults, Documentation, and Discipline

Strategies for creating a low-context SRE culture: leveraging defaults, simplifying processes, and fostering documentation habits to enhance teamwork, onboarding, and incident response in DevOps environments.

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

Observing from Incidents

Leveraging techniques from multiple companies to improve incident response, reduce impact, and enhance observability through knowledge sharing and effective visualization strategies.

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

Weeks of Debugging Can Save You Hours of TLA+

Explore TLA+ for reliable system design through a hands-on approach, solving a subtle concurrency issue to demonstrate its power in preventing critical failures and reducing debugging time.

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

Assise - Performance and Availability via NVM Colocation in a Distributed File System

Explores a novel distributed file system leveraging persistent memory modules for enhanced IO performance, rapid failover, and strong consistency, outperforming traditional remote storage models.

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

Gauntlet - Finding Bugs in Compilers for Programmable Packet Processing

Explores techniques for detecting bugs in P4 compilers, presenting Gauntlet tool that found 96 new bugs across platforms, leading to fixes and P4 specification changes.

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

Emerging from Burnout

Exploring burnout in SRE: causes, impacts, and strategies for recovery. Learn to apply system reliability principles to personal resilience and mental health management.

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

Improving Usability of Differential Privacy at Scale

Explore a framework enhancing Differential Privacy usability, allowing practitioners to visualize privacy-utility trade-offs and simplify complex concepts for better implementation and understanding.

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

Privacy Architecture for Data-Driven Innovation Configure

Learn how to build a comprehensive privacy governance program for data collection and sharing, balancing innovation with user trust and legal compliance in decentralized workplaces.

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

Effectively Prefetching Remote Memory with Leap

Innovative prefetching solution for remote memory access, improving latency and performance in memory disaggregation systems through online algorithms and efficient kernel data paths.

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

SplinterDB - Closing the Bandwidth Gap for NVMe Key-Value Stores

Explore SplinterDB, a novel key-value store designed for NVMe SSDs, offering improved performance and reduced write amplification compared to existing solutions like RocksDB.

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

The 2020 Election - Remote Voting, Disinformation, and Audit

Expert panel discusses challenges and technologies for safeguarding the 2020 US election amid pandemic concerns, disinformation, and pressure for remote voting, focusing on protecting process legitimacy and integrity.

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

Digital Contact Tracing - Panel Discussion

Expert panel discusses security, privacy, ethical, and legal issues of digital contact tracing systems for COVID-19, sharing experiences in development and analysis of these technologies.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

I'm Putting Sloths on the Map

Explore Sloth, a Go tool for simulating network failures in cloud infrastructure. Learn how it helps discover and fix issues in monitoring, graceful degradation, and usability through controlled network disruptions.

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

I Can't Believe It's Not Causal! Scalable Causal Consistency with No Slowdown Cascades

Explore Occult, a scalable geo-replicated data store providing causal consistency without slowdown cascades. Learn about its design, implementation, and evaluation using PC-PSI for efficient transaction handling.

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

vCorfu - A Cloud-Scale Object Store on a Shared Log

Explore vCorfu, a cloud-scale object store built on a shared log, offering strong consistency, efficient transactions, and global snapshots while outperforming traditional NoSQL databases.

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