USENIX Courses

Users Really Do Answer Telephone Scams

Explores factors influencing susceptibility to telephone scams through ethical phishing experiments, revealing the significant impact of spoofed Caller ID on victims' willingness to disclose sensitive information.

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

Data Domain Cloud Tier - Backup Here, Backup There, Deduplicated Everywhere!

Innovative cloud tier for Data Domain appliances, enabling cost-effective deduplication in the cloud. Focuses on space estimation, efficient data transfer, and file management between on-premises and cloud storage.

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

Measure, Then Build

Explore an empirically-driven approach to systems research, focusing on analyzing existing systems before designing new solutions. Learn from two decades of research examples at UW-Madison.

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

Transactuations - Where Transactions Meet the Physical World

Exploring transactuations: a novel abstraction for building reliable IoT applications, addressing inconsistencies in smart home environments caused by failures and unwanted interleaving.

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

From Laptop to Lambda - Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Transient Functional Containers

Explore gg, a framework enabling near-interactive execution of everyday tasks using thousands of parallel cloud functions, revolutionizing how we approach resource-intensive computing jobs.

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

Unification of Temporary Storage in the NodeKernel Architecture

Explores NodeKernel architecture for efficient temporary data storage, fusing file system and key-value semantics to enhance performance in data processing frameworks using modern hardware.

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

R2P2 - Making RPCs First-Class Datacenter Citizens

Innovative UDP-based protocol for efficient RPC routing in datacenters, improving tail latency and throughput for μs-scale applications through centralized load balancing and in-network scheduling.

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

Cross-Dataset Time Series Anomaly Detection for Cloud Systems

Innovative approach combining transfer and active learning for detecting anomalies in cloud systems using limited labeled data, improving efficiency in maintaining service availability.

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

A Dashboard Is Worth a Thousand Words - Better Monitoring for Better Ops

Explore how CERN's new monitoring system improved service operations and fostered SRE practices, discussing design decisions, operational challenges, and the benefits of implementing SLIs/SLOs.

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

HBase Internals and Operations

Explore HBase architecture, components, and key metrics for efficient high-availability operations in this comprehensive overview of the Hadoop-based key-value datastore.

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

Software Networking and Interfaces on Linux

Comprehensive overview of Linux network interfaces, from traditional to modern cloud-native types. Explores VMs, containers, and service meshes, aiding in debugging cloud platforms.

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

Code-Yellow - Helping Operations Top-Heavy Teams the Smart Way

Explore LinkedIn's "Code Yellow" process for identifying and supporting struggling teams, with insights on root causes and organizational strategies for improvement.

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

SRE & Product Management - How to Level up Your Team and Career by Thinking like a Product Manager

Discover strategies to enhance SRE teams by adopting product management principles, focusing on user-centric approaches to build scalable, opinionated, and usable platforms and tooling for engineers and developers.

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

Getting Started with Observability Lab - Opentracing, Prometheus, and Jaeger

Hands-on lab exploring observability tools for cloud-native applications. Install and use Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger to monitor Kubernetes clusters and instrument microservices for improved troubleshooting and diagnostics.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Differences in SRE Implementations across Companies

Explore diverse SRE implementations across companies in this interactive session. Share experiences and gain insights into varied approaches to Site Reliability Engineering in different organizational contexts.

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