USENIX Courses

Implementing SRE in a Telco with Reliability Enhancing Procedures

Discover how Swisscom implemented SRE practices using Reliability Enhancing Procedures to improve service reliability and transform their traditional ITIL model into a scalable SRE approach.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Looking at SRE Needs and Trends over Two Decades with a Single Service - SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa

Explore SRE evolution through Google's Chubby service, from leader election to critical infrastructure. Gain insights on monitoring, caching, and future SRE trends from two decades of experience.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Unraveling the Interoperability Challenges Among SaaS Products - Panel Discussion

Explore interoperability challenges among SaaS products with industry experts. Gain insights into integration hurdles and potential solutions for seamless platform coexistence.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Level 7 Egress Control in Kubernetes: Current Solutions and Future Standards - SREcon23

Explores FQDN-based egress control in Kubernetes, discussing current solutions, recent developments, and ongoing standardization efforts for improved network security and traffic management.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

SRE for Cybersecurity - Lessons from Google's Infrastructure Security

Lessons learned from leading Google's SRE teams for infrastructure security, Cloud Security products, and global resilience, with insights for enterprise CISOs and Boards of Directors.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Designing Matrix: A Global Decentralized End-to-End Encrypted Communication Network

Explore the design challenges and solutions of Matrix, a decentralized communication network. Learn about byzantine-fault tolerance, real-time optimization, and scaling strategies for large-scale instances.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

OpenTelemetry vs. Prometheus - Choosing the Right Monitoring Tool - SREcon23 EMEA

Comparison of OpenTelemetry collectors and Prometheus for monitoring at scale. Explores pros, cons, and considerations for SREs to make informed decisions about telemetry tooling.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

HTTP Headers That Make Your Website Go Faster

Discover effective HTTP caching techniques to boost website performance, handle traffic spikes, and improve user experience using built-in protocol mechanisms and Varnish Cache.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Artificial Intelligence: How Much Will It Cost You? - SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa

Explore the financial implications of integrating generative AI and large language models into products, examining training and serving costs, and potential future trends in AI implementation.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

From Sysadmins to Almost Flying Unicorns - Evolving to SRE

Explore the journey from sysadmin to SRE at Sony Interactive Entertainment, focusing on cultural shifts and improved service reliability. Learn strategies for successful SRE team integration.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Embracing the Multi-Party Dilemma: Incident Response Across Company Boundaries

Explore incident response challenges across company boundaries, focusing on managing vendor relationships and learning from multi-party incidents in software systems.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

When Clouds Stop Raining Discounts - Surviving the AWS Spot Market Drought

Explore strategies for managing AWS infrastructure costs amid market instability. Learn tools and techniques to analyze discount impacts and implement cost control measures during uncertain times.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

You Depend on DNS, This Is How It Works and You Won't Believe It

Explore DNS's 40-year evolution, its key features, and surprising facts in this live demo. Discover how this distributed system adapts and survives in modern networks.

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

Leveraging Unikernels and Kubernetes to Double Cloud Workload Performance

Explore unikernels via Unikraft for efficient cloud deployments: reduced memory usage, faster boot times, higher throughput, and Kubernetes integration, all with VM-level isolation.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Implementing Open-Source Observability at Maersk - SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa

Explore Maersk's journey in standardizing observability across diverse hosting environments using open-source tools. Learn about their self-service platform built on the LGTM stack and custom governance solutions.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video