USENIX Courses

Characterizing, Modeling, and Benchmarking RocksDB Key-Value Workloads at Facebook

Detailed analysis of RocksDB workloads at Facebook, revealing key-value usage patterns and proposing improved benchmarking methods for more accurate representation of real-world scenarios.

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

CRaft - An Erasure-coding-supported Version of Raft for Reducing Storage Cost

Explores CRaft, an erasure-coding-supported version of Raft consensus protocol, reducing storage and network costs while maintaining fault tolerance and liveness. Presents design, challenges, and performance improvements.

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

Crimson - A New Ceph OSD for the Age of Persistent Memory and Fast NVMe Storage

Explore Crimson, a new Ceph OSD designed for low-latency persistent memory and NVMe storage. Learn about its architecture, performance benefits, and future developments in this technical deep dive.

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

AccelTCP - Accelerating Network Applications with Stateful TCP Offloading

Explores hardware-assisted TCP stack architecture using programmable NICs to offload complex operations, improving performance for short-lived connections and layer-7 applications like Redis and HAProxy.

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

Understanding Kubernetes Storage - Getting in Deep by Writing a CSI Driver

Explore Kubernetes storage internals through CSI driver development. Gain insights into storage objects, scheduling, controllers, and the CSI ecosystem for a comprehensive understanding of Kubernetes storage mechanisms.

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

Speeding Up Linux Disk Encryption

Explore techniques to optimize Linux disk encryption performance, focusing on dm-crypt architecture and potential improvements for faster transparent data protection.

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

Food and Liquid Sensing in Practical Environments Using RFIDs

Innovative RF sensing system for non-invasive food and liquid identification in closed containers, achieving high accuracy across various applications and environments.

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

Key Per IO Security Subsystem Class for NVM Express Storage Devices

Explore KPIO, a new security standard for NVMe storage devices offering granular encryption, enhanced data protection, and improved compliance with data privacy regulations.

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

Read as Needed - Building WiSER, a Flash-Optimized Search Engine

Explore WiSER, a flash-optimized search engine designed to maximize SSD performance. Learn about innovative techniques for high throughput, low latency, and efficient memory usage in search applications.

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

Linux User Library for NVM Express

Explore the Linux User Library for NVM Express, covering recent enhancements, kernel interfaces, and future plans for this open-source tool designed to simplify NVMe device management and development.

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

Performant TCP for Low Power Wireless Networks

Optimizing TCP for low-power wireless networks, achieving high performance and energy efficiency through careful implementation and interaction between transport and link layers.

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

Programming Emerging Storage Interfaces

Explore xNVMe, a user-space library simplifying I/O submission for emerging storage interfaces like NVMe KV and ZNS namespaces, addressing memory constraints and providing a unified API for various I/O engines.

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

An Empirical Guide to the Behavior and Use of Scalable Persistent Memory

Empirical guide exploring Intel's Optane DIMM behavior, offering insights on performance characteristics and best practices for optimizing persistent memory software in real-world applications.

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

Linux Systems Performance

Comprehensive overview of Linux systems performance, covering tools, methodologies, and techniques for analysis and tuning. Ideal for developers and sysadmins seeking to optimize Linux environments.

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

Earthquakes, Forest Fires, and Your Next Production Incident

Explore the Incident Command System's origins, evolution, and application in tech emergencies. Learn to adapt this proven crisis management tool for your operational challenges.

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