USENIX Courses

Strong and Efficient Consistency with Consistency-Aware Durability

Introduces consistency-aware durability for strong consistency in distributed storage. Demonstrates cross-client monotonic reads in ORCA, a modified ZooKeeper, offering improved performance over strongly consistent systems.

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

Gandalf - An Intelligent, End-To-End Analytics Service for Safe Deployment in Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructure

Intelligent analytics service for safe software deployment in large-scale cloud infrastructure, monitoring fault signals and assessing rollout impact to prevent widespread outages.

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

CarMap - Fast 3D Feature Map Updates for Automobiles

Explores crowd-sourced 3D map collection for autonomous vehicles, presenting CarMap's lean representation and efficient updating techniques to enable near real-time uploads over cellular networks.

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

Introduction to Client Side Caching in Ceph

Explore Ceph's client-side caching evolution, focusing on RBD storage policies and upcoming write-back cache implementation for SSDs and persistent memory to enhance distributed storage performance.

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

Making Disk Failure Predictions SMARTer

Explore advanced machine learning techniques for predicting disk failures in large-scale data centers, improving reliability and reducing downtime in IT infrastructure.

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

Storytelling for Engineers

Explore effective communication techniques for engineers using storytelling frameworks. Learn to connect with audiences, deliver key information, and inspire action in technical settings.

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

Multi-Architecture Container Images - Why Bother, and How To

Explore multi-architecture container images: their importance, how registries handle them, and techniques for building cross-platform containers to ensure software compatibility across diverse CPU architectures.

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

Creating a Distributed Round Robin Scheduler with Etcd

Explore the challenges and insights of building a distributed round-robin scheduler using etcd for persistence and consensus in this developer-focused journey.

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

Sysadmins' Introduction to Vulnerability Scanning

Explore vulnerability scanning essentials for sysadmins, covering software vulnerabilities, networking, scanning tools, and server inspection. Learn how ops involvement can enhance overall security processes.

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

The Container Operator's Manual

Practical insights on container adoption in production environments, exploring advantages, challenges, and tradeoffs for engineers and organizations considering containerization at scale.

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

Distributed Sys Teams

Practical advice on making remote work effective, based on a decade of experience. Explores the importance of distributed teams for system resilience and fostering global collaboration.

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

GitOps - An Elegant Tool for Hybrid Cloud Kubernetes

Explore GitOps for consistent application management across multiple Kubernetes clusters. Learn deployment, management, and migration techniques through live demonstrations.

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

The Map Is Not the Territory - How SLOs Lead Us Astray, and What We Can Do about It

Explore SLO limitations in complex services, understand failure modes, and learn best practices for robust SLO construction to improve reliability and decision-making in modern systems.

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

Pushing through Friction

Strategies for engineering leaders to identify and overcome organizational friction, enhancing team efficiency and driving positive change in complex technical environments.

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

SRE in the Third Age

Explore the evolution of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) from its Google origins to widespread adoption, and ponder its future as the field matures and faces new challenges in the tech industry.

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