USENIX Courses

BPF Internals

Deep dive into Extended BPF (eBPF) internals, exploring its implementation, instruction set, and usage in performance observability tools. Covers kernel components, event sources, and user space interactions.

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

Sustainable Software Engineering

Explore the intersection of reliability, sustainability, and environmental impact in software engineering, with practical strategies for SREs to champion all three aspects in their teams.

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

Protecting System Integrity with Trusted Platform Module

Explore system firmware vulnerabilities and learn how Trusted Platform Module (TPM) can safeguard against persistent implants, ensuring secure access to infrastructure secrets.

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

Netflix - Streaming Entertainment to 200 Million Members Around the World

Explore Netflix's Open Connect CDN and its optimizations for efficient video streaming to millions of global subscribers. Learn about hardware and software innovations behind their content delivery system.

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

The Evolution of Traffic Routing in a Streaming World

Explores the evolution of traffic routing and load balancing in real-time streaming infrastructure, covering architectural changes, distributed systems, and full-mesh connections, with practical lessons and benefits.

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

Low Context DevOps - Improving SRE Team Culture through Defaults, Documentation, and Discipline

Strategies for creating a low-context SRE culture: leveraging defaults, simplifying processes, and fostering documentation habits to enhance teamwork, onboarding, and incident response in DevOps environments.

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

Observing from Incidents

Leveraging techniques from multiple companies to improve incident response, reduce impact, and enhance observability through knowledge sharing and effective visualization strategies.

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

Weeks of Debugging Can Save You Hours of TLA+

Explore TLA+ for reliable system design through a hands-on approach, solving a subtle concurrency issue to demonstrate its power in preventing critical failures and reducing debugging time.

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

Assise - Performance and Availability via NVM Colocation in a Distributed File System

Explores a novel distributed file system leveraging persistent memory modules for enhanced IO performance, rapid failover, and strong consistency, outperforming traditional remote storage models.

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

Gauntlet - Finding Bugs in Compilers for Programmable Packet Processing

Explores techniques for detecting bugs in P4 compilers, presenting Gauntlet tool that found 96 new bugs across platforms, leading to fixes and P4 specification changes.

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

Emerging from Burnout

Exploring burnout in SRE: causes, impacts, and strategies for recovery. Learn to apply system reliability principles to personal resilience and mental health management.

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

Improving Usability of Differential Privacy at Scale

Explore a framework enhancing Differential Privacy usability, allowing practitioners to visualize privacy-utility trade-offs and simplify complex concepts for better implementation and understanding.

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

Privacy Architecture for Data-Driven Innovation Configure

Learn how to build a comprehensive privacy governance program for data collection and sharing, balancing innovation with user trust and legal compliance in decentralized workplaces.

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

Effectively Prefetching Remote Memory with Leap

Innovative prefetching solution for remote memory access, improving latency and performance in memory disaggregation systems through online algorithms and efficient kernel data paths.

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

SplinterDB - Closing the Bandwidth Gap for NVMe Key-Value Stores

Explore SplinterDB, a novel key-value store designed for NVMe SSDs, offering improved performance and reduced write amplification compared to existing solutions like RocksDB.

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