USENIX Courses

Prio - Private, Robust, and Scalable Computation of Aggregate Statistics

Learn about Prio, a privacy-preserving system for collecting aggregate statistics. Discover how it protects user data while enabling useful computations through innovative cryptographic techniques.

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

Don't Burn Out or Fade Away - Conquering Occupational Burnout

Explore occupational burnout's causes, symptoms, and impacts. Learn to recognize warning signs, prevent escalation, and recover effectively. Gain insights from personal experiences and scientific research.

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

Lock It and Still Lose It - On the -In-Security of Automotive Remote Keyless Entry Systems

Unveils vulnerabilities in automotive remote keyless entry systems, demonstrating how attackers can exploit flaws to gain unauthorized access to vehicles from major manufacturers.

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

Mesos - A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center

Explore Mesos, a platform for efficient resource sharing in data centers. Learn about fine-grained allocation, resource offers, and improved cluster utilization across diverse computing frameworks.

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

Spanner - Google’s Globally-Distributed Database

Explore Google's Spanner: a globally-distributed database with scalability, multi-version support, and synchronous replication. Learn about its structure, features, and innovative time API for external consistency.

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

TAO - Facebook’s Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph

Explore Facebook's TAO, a distributed data store designed for efficient social graph access. Learn about its architecture, API, and how it handles billions of reads and millions of writes per second.

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

zxcvbn - Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation

Explore zxcvbn, an innovative password strength estimator that outperforms traditional methods. Learn its efficient design, accuracy, and easy implementation for enhanced online security.

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

In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm

Explore Raft, a consensus algorithm for replicated logs, designed to be more understandable than Paxos while maintaining efficiency and providing a solid foundation for practical systems.

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

fTPM - A Software-Only Implementation of a TPM Chip

Explore software-based TPM implementation using ARM TrustZone, overcoming hardware limitations to provide robust security features for trusted computing in mobile devices.

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

Fast, Lean, and Accurate - Modeling Password Guessability Using Neural Networks

Neural networks for modeling password guessability: faster, smaller, and more accurate than existing methods. Enables real-time, client-side password strength evaluation with sub-second latency.

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

The Design and Implementation of Open vSwitch

Explore the architecture, design, and performance optimizations of Open vSwitch, an open-source virtual switch for hypervisor platforms, focusing on flow classification and caching techniques.

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

F2FS - A New File System for Flash Storage

Explore F2FS, a Linux file system optimized for flash storage. Learn its design, data structures, and algorithms, and see how it outperforms EXT4 in various scenarios on mobile and server systems.

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

Diamond Miner - Comprehensive Discovery of the Internet's Topology Diamonds

Comprehensive Internet topology mapping system reveals hidden complexities, including load-balanced paths and frequent remapping events, offering deeper insights into network structure and resilience.

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

Contra - A Programmable System for Performance Aware Routing

Programmable system for adaptive, performance-aware network routing across various topologies and policies. Compiles network-wide policies into switch-local programs, implementing specialized distance-vector protocols for optimized path selection.

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

Is Big Data Performance Reproducible in Modern Cloud Networks?

Explores network variability in cloud computing, its impact on big data workloads, and provides guidelines for more repeatable and predictable performance experiments in cloud environments.

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