USENIX Courses

EBPF - The Next Power Tool of SREs

Explore eBPF, a revolutionary Linux kernel technology for infrastructure observation and protection. Learn its capabilities, use cases, and implementation for enhanced system reliability and security.

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

Building a Path to the Future - Mentoring New SREs

Strategies for effective mentorship in SRE, focusing on remote work challenges and the importance of guiding principles, documentation, and sponsorship for career growth.

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

Principled Performance Analytics

Explore innovative analytical methods for high-fidelity insights in distributed systems, focusing on performance analytics, statistical approaches, and practical applications in complex services at scale.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Automated Operating System and Environment Certification at LinkedIn - Reducing Toil and Increasing Velocity

Automated OS certification at LinkedIn: Reducing toil, increasing velocity. Discusses project evolution, challenges, and early results in enhancing certification processes across data centers and Azure.

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

How We Survived - and Thrived - During The Pandemic and Helped Millions of Students Learn Remotely

Discover how McGraw Hill applied 'Upstream Thinking' to thrive during the pandemic, scaling services and implementing SRE principles to support millions of remote learners without compromising security or incurring high costs.

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

The 'Success' in SRE Is Silent

Strategies for demonstrating ROI in SRE and availability work, addressing challenges and potential regulatory issues to ensure continued investment and positive outcomes.

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

How the Metrics Backend Works at Datadog

Explore Datadog's metrics backend evolution, scaling challenges, and reliability solutions. Learn about distributed systems, Kafka implementation, and strategies for handling failures at various levels.

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

Building and Running a Diversity-Focused Pre-Internship Program for SRE

Learn about Meta's innovative pre-internship program for SRE, focusing on diversity and early career development. Gain insights on program structure, curriculum, and outcomes to implement similar initiatives.

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

Are We There Yet? - Metrics-Driven Prioritization for Your Reliability Roadmap

Metrics-driven framework for prioritizing reliability improvements in SRE teams. Guides leaders in making data-based decisions, highlighting successes, and gaining support for impactful initiatives.

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

Toward Secure and Convenient Browsing Data Management in the Cloud

Explores a novel Cloud computing Age Browser architecture to address browsing data insecurity and inconvenience issues in modern Web browsers, leveraging cloud storage services.

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

Scaling Memcache at Facebook

Explore Facebook's scaling of memcached to support billions of requests per second and trillions of items, enabling a rich experience for over a billion users worldwide.

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

Understanding the Robustness of SSDs under Power Fault

Explores SSD reliability under power faults, revealing surprising failure behaviors in commodity devices. Proposes a testing framework to expose issues and improve storage system robustness.

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

Never Been KIST - Tor’s Congestion Management Blossoms with Kernel-Informed Socket Transport

Explores Tor's congestion issues, proposing KIST algorithm to improve network performance by optimizing socket management using real-time kernel information, reducing latency and increasing throughput.

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

GraphX - Graph Processing in a Distributed Dataflow Framework

Explore GraphX, a graph processing framework built on Apache Spark, offering performance comparable to specialized systems while enabling broader computational capabilities and fault tolerance.

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

Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network

Explore eclipse attacks on Bitcoin's P2P network, their impact on mining and consensus, and proposed countermeasures to enhance network security while maintaining decentralization.

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