USENIX Courses

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

Calcspar - A Contract-Aware LSM Store for Cloud Storage with Low Latency Spikes

Explores Calcspar, a contract-aware LSM store for cloud storage, addressing latency challenges in Amazon EBS. Demonstrates significant tail latency reduction while maintaining performance in real-world workloads.

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

Legion - Automatically Pushing the Envelope of Multi-GPU System for Billion-Scale GNN Training

Innovative system for accelerating billion-scale GNN training using multi-GPU caching, hierarchical partitioning, and automatic management, significantly outperforming existing solutions.

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

AWARE - Automate Workload Autoscaling with Reinforcement Learning in Production Cloud Systems

Explore AWARE, an innovative framework using reinforcement learning for efficient workload autoscaling in cloud systems, offering faster adaptation and improved resource utilization.

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

VectorVisor - A Binary Translation Scheme for Throughput-Oriented GPU Acceleration

Explore VectorVisor, a novel GPU acceleration approach for server-side applications, offering improved throughput and cost-efficiency through vectorized binary translation and CPU thread emulation.

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

SecretFlow-SPU - A Performant and User-Friendly Framework for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

Explore SecretFlow-SPU, a framework for privacy-preserving machine learning that outperforms existing solutions and simplifies development for users without cryptography expertise.

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

Beware of Fragmentation - Scheduling GPU-Sharing Workloads with Fragmentation Gradient Descent

Innovative GPU scheduling technique using Fragmentation Gradient Descent to optimize resource allocation, reducing unallocated GPUs by up to 49% and improving utilization in large-scale machine learning clusters.

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

Sky Computing

Explore the potential evolution of cloud computing ecosystems, drawing parallels with other tech industries and discussing early findings in the field of sky computing.

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

Bridging the Gap between Relational OLTP and Graph-based OLAP

Explore GART, an innovative system bridging relational OLTP and graph-based OLAP, offering real-time graph analytics with superior performance and data freshness for dynamic applications.

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

Portunus - Re-imagining Access Control in Distributed Systems

Innovative cryptographic system using attribute-based encryption for secure, efficient TLS key management in distributed networks, enhancing access control without compromising performance.

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