USENIX Courses

Hacking the Pachyderm - Scaling Servers and People

Scaling a social platform from 700 to 30,000 users in one month: technical challenges, decision-making, and team dynamics during rapid growth and migration without data loss or burnout.

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

Your Infrastructure Needs to D.I.E.

Explore how Distributed, Immutable, and Ephemeral (D.I.E.) infrastructure enhances cloud-native security, integrating controlled chaos for continuous improvement and increased resilience against modern threats.

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

Far from the Shallows - The Value of Deeper Incident Analysis

Explore the value of in-depth incident analysis in SRE, moving beyond surface-level metrics to uncover hidden insights and improve system reliability through qualitative investigation.

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

Scaling Terraform at ThousandEyes

Discover innovative solutions for scaling Terraform, addressing code duplication, environment drift, and feature limitations in large-scale infrastructure management.

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

Financial Resiliency Engineering - Taming Cloud Costs

Explore strategies for reducing cloud infrastructure costs and improving resource efficiency, with insights from Shopify's 2022 initiative to optimize their cloud footprint.

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

Founder - CTO Perspectives - The Future of Distributed Tracing

Explore the future of distributed tracing with CTOs from Honeycomb and Sentry. Gain insights on its impact, evolution, and diverse approaches in engineering teams.

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

Human Observability of Incident Response

Practical advice on improving incident response outcomes by understanding the human element. Explores coordination, learning, and socio-technical systems in incident management.

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

The Best SREs Seem to Be the Ones without an SRE Title—And What We Can Do about It

Exploring why non-SRE titled professionals often excel in SRE roles, examining industry trends, and providing actionable solutions to enhance the value and effectiveness of dedicated SRE teams.

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

How SRE Makes Electric Vehicles

Applying SRE principles to electric vehicle manufacturing: Automation, CI/CD, Observability, and SLOs in a complex production line involving humans and robots.

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

Warding against the Dark Arts - Crafting a Defense Strategy against Botnet DDoS Attacks

Learn strategies to defend against large-scale DDoS attacks, focusing on performance gains, service hardening, and understanding real-user traffic for improved availability and comprehensive protection.

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

The Making of an Ultra Low Latency Trading System with Go and Java

Insights into building ultra-low latency trading systems using Go and Java, covering language runtimes, threading models, RAFT implementations, and system optimizations for sub-50 microsecond latency.

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

Implementing SRE in a Regulated Environment

Insights on implementing Site Reliability Engineering practices in regulated environments, focusing on root cause analysis, chaos testing, and trend analysis while meeting regulatory expectations.

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

Beacon - Intelligent Latency-Aware and Load Shedding Service Routing

Explore Beacon, an intelligent framework for service routing in large-scale organizations, addressing challenges of database replication delays and ensuring up-to-date information delivery to customers.

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

Adaptive Concurrency Control for Mixed Analytical Workloads

Explore adaptive concurrency control for real-time analytics, addressing timeouts in mixed workloads. Learn iterative improvements for better user experience in query services.

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

Seeing the Invisible - Two Years at Wikipedia with W3C's Network Error Logging

Discover how Wikipedia uses W3C's Network Error Logging to detect user-facing outages in real-time. Learn about implementation strategies and case studies of outages missed by traditional monitoring methods.

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