USENIX Courses

Empirical Privacy Metrics in Synthetic Data Generation - The Bad, the Ugly, and the Good

Explore synthetic data generation, empirical privacy metrics, and their implications for data privacy. Uncover myths, assess usefulness, and learn requirements for effective privacy protection in data analysis and sharing.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Measuring Privacy Risks in Mobile Apps at Scale

Explore Internet Safety Labs' research on privacy risks in K-12 EdTech apps, including methodology, key findings, and challenges in large-scale privacy measurement.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Navigating the Privacy Landscape of AI on Devices - Challenges and Best Practices

Explore challenges and best practices for balancing AI advancements with user privacy on personal devices, focusing on responsible data handling and transparent AI development.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

How Privacy Engineering Can Streamline the M&A Process

Explore how Privacy Engineering principles and advanced methodologies can streamline M&A processes, mitigate risks, and provide crucial insights during early acquisition stages.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Building a Protocol to Improve Data Subject Request Flexibility and Integration

Exploring a protocol for efficient data subject request handling, from intake to system-wide propagation. Discusses payload structures, implementation lessons, and future applications for improved DSR flexibility.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Balancing Privacy - Leveraging Privacy Budgets for Privacy-Enhancing Technologies

Explore privacy budgets in PETs, balancing input protection with output privacy. Learn metrics, guidelines, and strategies for compliance and valuable data insights.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Systems Thinking with Poisoned Systems

Explore the challenges and solutions of operating systems with AI, including data poisoning, bias, and inaccessibility, while discovering strategies to transform AI into a transparent and reliable tool for innovation.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Technical Debt as Theory Building and Practice

Explore the connections between technical debt, housework, and infrastructure, learning strategies to understand, prioritize, and build coherent narratives around technical debt management.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions and How to Avoid Broken Observability

Explore OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions, their benefits for standardizing telemetry data, and how to handle schema changes using the Schema Processor to prevent observability disruptions.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Taming the Beast: Understanding and Harnessing the Power of HTTP Proxies

Explore how HTTP proxies can enhance observability, performance, and resilience in SRE workflows, with practical strategies for debugging, traffic manipulation, and incident mitigation using tools like OpenTelemetry.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Securing Distributed Cache: Achieving Secure-by-Default with Key Challenges and Insights

Explore the security challenges of Netflix's distributed caching system handling 400M requests/second across 14PB of data, with insights on certificate management, policy lookups, and secure proxy calls for polyglot clients.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Transformers in SRE Land: Evolving to Manage AI Infrastructure

Explore the unique challenges of managing AI infrastructure as an SRE, from GPU-accelerated clusters to anomaly detection, with real-world insights for ensuring reliability and performance of AI systems.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Case Study: A Thundering Herd in the Wild

Dive into a real-world investigation of an unexpected "thundering herd" variant, following the troubleshooting process from sampling to kernel mode analysis that revealed synchronized thread wakeups caused by absolute timer system calls.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Optimizing Machine Learning Training Infrastructure: A Governance Approach

Discover how Meta transformed ML training infrastructure management through governance strategies that drive ROI, maximize resources, and accelerate time-to-market, with real-world examples and lessons learned.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Distributed Tracing in Action: Our Journey with OpenTelemetry

Explore a journey with Distributed Tracing using OpenTelemetry and Istio in microservices. Learn about context propagation challenges, automatic instrumentation, and how tracing enhances application performance insights.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video