USENIX Courses

Lessons Learned Running GKE Clusters on Spot Instances

Explore cost-saving strategies and challenges of running GKE clusters on Spot Instances, including capacity management, edge cases, and the importance of SRE principles in this dynamic environment.

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

LiveMLP - ML Platform for Assisting Contact Center Agents in Real-Time

Explore a real-time ML platform designed to assist contact center agents, addressing challenges in throughput, latency, and fault tolerance while improving customer support efficiency.

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

Are We All on the Same Page? Let's Fix That

Explore Adaptive Paging, an innovative alert handler leveraging tracing and semantic conventions to identify and page teams closest to issues in complex distributed systems, reducing alert fatigue.

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

How Safe Is Your Domain?

Deep-dive into domain and DNS safety, exploring threat vectors, detection methods, and mitigation strategies for improved security and availability of infrastructure domains and subdomains.

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

Cultivating Accountability and Resilience

Explore DBS Bank's framework for building resilient infrastructure through cultural transformation, focusing on collaborative approaches and system-wide improvements for a proactive tech environment.

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

Leveraging Analytics for Technical Efficiency and Enhanced User Experience

Explore innovative analytics-driven services for improved site reliability, including automated outage management, predictive Slackbot solutions, and user engagement optimization through event data analysis.

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

Performance Testing in Keptn Using K6

Explore Keptn's integration with K6 for scalable performance testing in delivery pipelines, including SLO evaluation and quality gates for efficient service monitoring and optimization.

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

Autonomous Automation - How Cloudflare Handles Server Diagnostics and Recovery at Scale

Explore Cloudflare's autonomous system for server diagnostics and recovery at scale. Learn to transform automation into autonomy, applying SRE principles for increased efficiency and productivity.

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

Patterns, Not Categories - Learning Across Incidents

Explore a pattern-centered approach to outage analysis, moving beyond traditional categorization methods to identify fundamental failure patterns in complex systems for improved reliability decision-making.

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

Taming Spiky Log Volumes - Maintaining Real-Time Log Accessibility with Kaldb

Explore strategies for managing high-volume log data and maintaining real-time accessibility using Kaldb. Learn techniques to handle spiky log volumes efficiently in large-scale systems.

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

The Secret Weapon for a Successful SRE Career - And It's Not What You Think

Discover how soft skills can be the key to a successful SRE career. Learn practical techniques to develop interpersonal abilities, regardless of personality type, and understand their crucial role in the SRE discipline.

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

What Is Linux Kernel Keystore and Why You Should Use It in Your Next Application

Explore Linux Kernel Keystore's secure credential management for applications, integrating with security hardware and protecting secrets from memory vulnerabilities in cloud environments.

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

Untangling the Tangled Cloud

Strategies for organizing cloud resources into logical groups, focusing on high cohesion and low coupling. Introduces Ferent, an open-source tool for measuring inter-project dependencies in Google Cloud.

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

SRE Engagement Model Transition in Building and Expanding SRE Team

Explore the evolution of an SRE team's engagement model, from startup to supporting a 400-person organization. Learn strategies for adapting to growth challenges through three key phases: Launch, Specialization, and Expansion.

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

Why This Stuff Is Hard

Explore common challenges in system reliability and strategies for success. Gain insights into managing complexity and time pressure in production environments.

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