USENIX Courses

Enabling High-Quality Real-Time Communications with Adaptive Frame-Rate

Explore adaptive frame rate control for ultra-low latency in high-quality real-time communications, addressing decoder bottlenecks and network fluctuations to enhance user experience in cloud gaming.

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

SLNet - A Spectrogram Learning Neural Network for Deep Wireless Sensing

Innovative deep learning approach for wireless sensing, combining spectrogram generation and learning to enhance accuracy in various applications like gesture recognition and fall detection.

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

DOTE - Rethinking Predictive WAN Traffic Engineering

Innovative approach to WAN traffic engineering using historical data and deep learning, outperforming existing methods in quality and runtime while nearly matching an omniscient oracle.

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

OpenLoRa - Validating LoRa Implementations through an Extensible and Open-sourced Framework

Explore OpenLoRa, an open-source platform for evaluating LoRa packet collision resolution techniques. Learn about implementation challenges and performance benchmarks in low SNR environments.

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

OneWAN is Better Than Two - Unifying a Split WAN Architecture

Unifying split WAN architecture for cloud providers, addressing operational complexity and cost inefficiency. Introduces ONEWAN, a software-defined solution for Internet and inter-datacenter traffic, featuring innovative routing and traffic engineering t…

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

Resiliency Practices in Managing CDN - Content Delivery Network

Explore Netflix's Open Connect CDN resilience strategies, including stack failures, overload tests, and regional DNS withdrawal exercises to ensure robust content delivery worldwide.

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

Building and Operating a Pretty Big Storage System - My Adventures in Amazon S3

Insights into building and operating Amazon S3, exploring technical challenges, organizational aspects, and personal experiences of working on a massive-scale cloud storage service.

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

Meatbag Systems - How Our Reliability Culture & Practice Evolved over Time

Exploring the evolution of reliability culture through major incidents, emphasizing the human aspect in maintaining production systems and aligning reliability with customer value.

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

Real-Time Adaptive Controls for Resilient Distributed Systems

Explore real-time adaptive controls for resilient distributed systems, focusing on dynamic parameter tuning to enhance service resilience and reduce configuration errors in large-scale production environments.

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

Improving Machine Learning Development Reliability

Explore challenges and solutions for ML development reliability, focusing on unique aspects of the ML lifecycle, monitoring, and scalability in production environments.

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

Move Fast and Learn Things - Principles of Cognition, Teaming, and Coordination

Explore cognitive and coordinative mechanisms for resilient software engineering, drawing from psychology and management theory to enhance SRE practices and organizational effectiveness.

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

Computing Performance 2022 - What's on the Horizon

Explore the future of computing performance with insights on emerging hardware and software technologies, their impact on SRE, and predictions for improved speed and efficiency.

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

A Post Incident Review Review

Explore ANZx's unique post-incident review process, focusing on safety science concepts and avoiding root cause analysis or action items tracking in a regulated industry environment.

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

Advanced Linux Kernel Networking Monitoring

Explore advanced Linux kernel networking monitoring for containers, focusing on troubleshooting techniques and a custom tool for identifying network issues in Kubernetes environments.

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

How We Drained Every Backbone Router Simultaneously

Exploring Meta's 2021 outage: causes, cascading effects, and lessons learned. Insights into network infrastructure, disaster recovery, and future improvements for preventing similar incidents.

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