USENIX Courses

Serverless Ops - What to Do When the Server Goes Away

Explore the impact of serverless architecture on operations, redefining roles and responsibilities. Learn to adapt, prove value, and navigate the changing landscape of cloud technology.

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

Incident Management at Netflix Velocity

Discover Netflix's approach to handling incidents at high velocity, focusing on preparation, expertise, and continuous learning to ensure quick recovery and unique outage scenarios.

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

Kafka on Kubernetes - From Evaluation to Production at Intuit

Explore Intuit's journey of running Kafka on Kubernetes in AWS, covering evaluation, testing, configuration, and integration with monitoring tools. Learn about challenges faced and solutions implemented.

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

Cross Atlantic - Scaling Instagram Infrastructure from US to Europe

Scaling Instagram's infrastructure across continents: challenges, solutions, and disaster recovery strategies for deploying stateful services and partitioning Cassandra databases between US and Europe.

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

Apache Kafka and KSQL in Action - Let's Build a Streaming Data Pipeline

Build real-time streaming data pipelines using Apache Kafka and KSQL. Learn architectural benefits, data integration, filtering, enrichment, and anomaly detection through practical demonstrations.

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

Circonus - Design Failures Case Study

Explore Circonus platform's evolution, including architectural changes and lessons learned from failures in telemetry management and SLO implementation for system reliability.

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

Keep Building Fresh - Shopify's Journey to Kubernetes

Shopify's transition to Kubernetes: challenges, solutions, and benefits of moving from traditional infrastructure to cloud-native. Insights on custom tooling and automation for efficient container orchestration.

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

The Myth of Cloud Agnosticism

Explores the practical challenges of cloud agnosticism, discussing financial, technical, and operational complexities of multi-cloud deployments and migrations between providers.

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

Capacity Planning in Four Parts - Telling the Future without a Crystal Ball

Learn proactive capacity planning techniques to avoid reactive scaling, covering monitoring, future planning, enforcement, re-evaluation, and common pitfall avoidance for SREs and engineers.

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

Know Your Kubernetes Deploys

Explore Shopify's approach to securing Kubernetes deployments through container signatures and admission controllers, ensuring a robust software supply chain.

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

Against On-Call - A Polemic

Challenges traditional on-call practices in tech, analyzing their impact on workers and proposing alternatives for a future without on-call shifts. Explores industry history and calls for change.

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

Bamboozling Certificate Authorities with BGP

Análisis de vulnerabilidades en la infraestructura de clave pública y demostración de ataques BGP para obtener certificados falsos, con propuestas de contramedidas para mejorar la seguridad.

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

Foreshadow - Extracting the Keys to the Intel SGX Kingdom with Transient Out-of-Order Execution

Unveiling Foreshadow: A microarchitectural attack exploiting speculative execution to extract secrets from Intel SGX enclaves, compromising trusted execution environments and remote attestation.

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

TeEther - Gnawing at Ethereum to Automatically Exploit Smart Contracts

Explore automatic vulnerability detection and exploit generation for Ethereum smart contracts using teEther, a tool that analyzes binary bytecode to identify and exploit security weaknesses.

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

Polisis - Automated Analysis and Presentation of Privacy Policies Using Deep Learning

Automated framework for analyzing privacy policies using deep learning, enabling scalable queries and applications like privacy icon assignment and question-answering systems.

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