USENIX Courses

TAP - Transparent and Privacy-Preserving Data Services

Explore a novel system for transparent, privacy-preserving data services. Learn about TAP's tree structure, zero-knowledge proofs, and verifiable operations, addressing limitations in existing approaches.

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

Attacks are Forwarded - Breaking the Isolation of MicroVM-based Containers Through Operation Forwarding

Explores vulnerabilities in microVM-based containers, demonstrating operation forwarding attacks that can break isolation, exploit host kernel vulnerabilities, and exhaust resources on public cloud platforms.

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

Account Verification on Social Media - User Perceptions and Paid Enrollment

Explores user perceptions of social media verification, focusing on Twitter's changes. Combines survey data and account analysis to reveal misunderstandings and shifts in verified user demographics.

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

RIDAS - Real-Time Identification of Attack Sources on Controller Area Networks

Real-time method for identifying attack sources on vehicle networks, enhancing cybersecurity through error handling and sequential ECU inspection. Robust against environmental changes and attacker evasion.

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

AutoFR - Automated Filter Rule Generation for Adblocking

Innovative reinforcement learning framework for automated ad-blocking filter rule creation, balancing ad removal and visual integrity while matching EasyList's effectiveness and offering scalability.

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

Downfall - Exploiting Speculative Data Gathering

Unveiling Downfall attacks: new transient execution vulnerabilities exploiting gather instructions on x86 CPUs, compromising security across various computing environments and defeating existing defenses.

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

Unleashing Generative AI - Improving Developer Productivity in SRE

Explore how SRE teams can leverage Generative AI to automate tasks, boost productivity, and reduce burnout. Learn strategies for integrating AI in code reviews, testing, and deployment processes.

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

From "Keeping the Lights On" to "Designing the LEDs" - A Detailed Review of Our Journey Transforming 500+ Engineers

Detailed journey of transforming 500+ engineers to embrace SRE principles, focusing on culture change, observability, and client experience measurement at Standard Chartered Bank.

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

Challenges of Managing Real-Time Financial Market Data Storage

Explore Bloomberg's journey in managing real-time financial market data storage, from local disk to cloud. Learn about custom solutions, challenges, and lessons in handling 300 billion daily events.

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

Multicloud and the Chamber of Secrets

Exploring strategies for secure secret management in multicloud environments, balancing availability and security while meeting auditor requirements and engineer needs.

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

Mastering Chaos - Achieving Fault Tolerance with Observability-Driven Prioritized Load Shedding

Explore Aperture, an open-source tool for observability-driven prioritized load shedding in microservices, addressing metastable failures and enabling graceful degradation of non-critical services.

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

Fighting Financial Crimes as an SRE

Explore technologies and strategies used by SREs to combat financial crimes, focusing on innovative approaches and best practices in the field of regulatory technology.

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

Start Small, Scale Big - Building and Scaling Platforms and SRE Culture at Startups

Insights on building and scaling SRE teams and platforms in startups, focusing on principles, practical learnings, and strategies to handle growing user demands in dynamic environments.

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

Better Observability with No Code Changes

Discover techniques for enhancing application observability without modifying code. Learn to identify key functions for instrumentation and use OpenTelemetry's Javaagent for configuration-based runtime visibility.

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

From Push to Pull - Managing Mutable Infrastructure at a Global Scale

Evolving deployment infrastructure from push to pull model in a massive hybrid cloud environment, addressing challenges of mutable infrastructure and technical debt for SRE teams.

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