USENIX Courses

Humane On-call

Explore strategies for implementing and improving on-call practices in SRE and tech roles, emphasizing its importance and offering actionable ideas for more humane and effective 24/7 operations.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Towards Zero Carbon - Implementing Sustainable Battery Lifecycle Management in Data Centers

Innovative solution for sustainable battery lifecycle management in data centers using IoT, AI, and real-time monitoring to reduce costs, prevent downtime, and achieve zero-carbon waste diversion goals.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Finding the Needle in the Haystack - Predicting Storage Device Failures in Data Centers

Practical approach to predicting storage device failures in data centers using multi-phase proactive sampling, addressing challenges of accuracy, performance, and cost-effectiveness for Site Reliability Engineers.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

The Only Constant Is Change - Lessons from a 25 Year SRE Career

Explore the evolution of SRE over 25 years, gaining insights on essential career skills and future trends in tech infrastructure management from an industry veteran's perspective.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Hold My Beer - Load Testing in Production on Autopilot

Discover how automated load testing in production enhances system reliability, developer confidence, and business performance while minimizing risks and human intervention.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Real World Debugging with eBPF

Explore eBPF for debugging production issues in Golang, overcoming traditional tool limitations. Learn practical techniques and gain insights for immediate problem-solving without special debug modes.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Transformation Journey of E2E Customer Flow Testing to Proactive Synthetic Monitoring System

Evolving PayPal's E2E customer flow testing into a proactive synthetic monitoring system for improved incident prevention, faster detection, and enhanced site reliability.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk