USENIX Courses

Consul as a Monitoring Solution

Explore Consul's advanced monitoring capabilities, including intelligent health checks, automatic traffic routing, and problem-solving without human intervention for efficient cluster management.

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

The Knowledge - Towards a Culture of Engineering Documentation

Strategies for improving engineering documentation: building platforms, integrating with toolchains, and fostering a culture where documentation is essential to development.

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

So You Want to Be a Wizard

Discover strategies for effective debugging, information gathering, and problem-solving in SRE. Learn to leverage curiosity, source code analysis, and organizational understanding to excel in your role.

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

Reliable Data Processing with Minimal Toil

Explore strategies for safer, automated batch job processing across millions of users, featuring insights from Google and Slack on canarying, rollouts, and validations.

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

Improving Observability in Your Observability - Simple Tips for SREs

Practical tips for SREs to enhance data visualization in dashboards, drawing inspiration from historical figures and avoiding common pitfalls to improve information density and credibility.

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

DevOps Ten Years After - Review of a Failure

Revisiting the origins of DevOps: Allspaw and Hammond reflect on the movement's evolution, challenges, and future prospects a decade after their influential talk.

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

Elephant in the Blameless War Room - Accountability

Explore strategies for balancing blamelessness and accountability in incident management. Learn to communicate effectively, align goals, and foster a culture of constructive accountability in high-performance teams.

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

Rethinking the SDLC

Revolutionizing software development: A new model for the modern, complex ecosystem. Embraces distributed systems, DevOps derivatives, and continuous innovation to match today's development experience.

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

What's the Cost of a Millisecond?

Exploring latency amplification in microservices, this talk reveals how a single millisecond delay can significantly impact user-visible latency, emphasizing the importance of optimizing deep-stack performance.

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

Let the Chaos Begin - SRE Chaos Engineering Meets Cybersecurity

Explore Security Chaos Engineering's role in uncovering system vulnerabilities and enhancing cyber resiliency. Learn to formulate and verify hypotheses through practical experimentation.

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

Distributed Trust - Is “Blockchain” the Answer?

Explore distributed trust systems and evaluate blockchain's effectiveness in addressing reliability issues in the presence of misbehaving participants. Gain insights from industry expert Radia Perlman.

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

It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware

Keynote address exploring the need for operating systems research to re-engage with modern hardware realities, proposing strategies to address the disconnect between OS design and current technology.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Practical Kubernetes Security Learning using Kubernetes Goat

Explore Kubernetes security vulnerabilities using Kubernetes Goat, a "vulnerable by design" environment. Learn to assess and improve cloud-native infrastructure security posture through hands-on practice.

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

Exploiting Brain Vulnerabilities - Chaotic Good at Scale

Strategies for introducing new concepts and changing minds across diverse groups, using change management, organizational transformation, and communication techniques for effective cultural navigation.

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

5 Years of Cgroup v2 - The Future of Linux Resource Control

Explore cgroup v2's impact on Linux resource control, including challenges, solutions, and real-world applications in large-scale systems and containerization technologies.

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