USENIX Courses

Tracing Real-Time Distributed Systems

Exploring distributed tracing in real-time data streaming systems, focusing on challenges and solutions for trading platforms, including session tracking, data flow management, and storage optimization.

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

Zero Touch Prod - Towards Safer and More Secure Production Environments

Explore principles and tools for safer production environments through automation, safe proxies, and audited break-glass, reducing human errors and insider threats in system operations.

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

All of Our ML Ideas Are Bad - and We Should Feel Bad

Explores limitations of Machine Learning in production engineering, debunking common misconceptions and discussing potential feasible applications for SREs.

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

How to SRE When Everything's Already on Fire

Learn how Squarespace's team adopted SRE practices to transform their unreliable logging platform into a trusted system with 99.9% uptime, sharing valuable insights and strategies for improving service reliability.

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

A Systems Approach to Safety and Cybersecurity

Explore systems thinking for safety and cybersecurity, integrating approaches to manage emergent properties and control problems in complex systems.

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

Refining Systems Data without Losing Fidelity

Explore strategies for efficient systems data management, including sampling and aggregation techniques, to maintain crucial information while reducing data volume and costs.

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

How to Do SRE When You Have No SRE

Practical strategies for implementing Site Reliability Engineering principles in resource-constrained environments, focusing on gradual improvements and stress reduction for engineering teams.

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

How Stripe Invests in Technical Infrastructure

Explore Stripe's approach to prioritizing technical infrastructure investments, balancing firefighting and innovation, and enabling long-term success through strategic decision-making and resource allocation.

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

Unleashing Generative AI - Improving Developer Productivity in SRE

Explore how SRE teams can leverage Generative AI to automate tasks, boost productivity, and reduce burnout. Learn strategies for integrating AI in code reviews, testing, and deployment processes.

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

From "Keeping the Lights On" to "Designing the LEDs" - A Detailed Review of Our Journey Transforming 500+ Engineers

Detailed journey of transforming 500+ engineers to embrace SRE principles, focusing on culture change, observability, and client experience measurement at Standard Chartered Bank.

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

Challenges of Managing Real-Time Financial Market Data Storage

Explore Bloomberg's journey in managing real-time financial market data storage, from local disk to cloud. Learn about custom solutions, challenges, and lessons in handling 300 billion daily events.

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

Multicloud and the Chamber of Secrets

Exploring strategies for secure secret management in multicloud environments, balancing availability and security while meeting auditor requirements and engineer needs.

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

Mastering Chaos - Achieving Fault Tolerance with Observability-Driven Prioritized Load Shedding

Explore Aperture, an open-source tool for observability-driven prioritized load shedding in microservices, addressing metastable failures and enabling graceful degradation of non-critical services.

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

Fighting Financial Crimes as an SRE

Explore technologies and strategies used by SREs to combat financial crimes, focusing on innovative approaches and best practices in the field of regulatory technology.

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

Start Small, Scale Big - Building and Scaling Platforms and SRE Culture at Startups

Insights on building and scaling SRE teams and platforms in startups, focusing on principles, practical learnings, and strategies to handle growing user demands in dynamic environments.

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