USENIX Courses

Bringing Gesture Recognition to All Devices

Innovative gesture recognition system for low-power devices, utilizing existing wireless signals to enable always-on functionality across various platforms, including battery-free devices.

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

The Origins of USAA's Postmortem of the Week

Discover USAA's journey in establishing an IT-wide Postmortem Review meeting, with tips for implementing your own large-scale review process. Learn from their experiences and insights.

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

How Our SREs Safeguard Nanosecond Performance - at Scale - in an Environment Built to Fail

Explore SRE principles in high-frequency trading, balancing innovation with risk management. Learn strategies for safeguarding nanosecond performance in a regulated, failure-prone environment at scale.

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

SRE "Power Words" - The Lexicon of SRE as an Industry

Explore the impact of language in Site Reliability Engineering, examining key terms and their role in shaping industry practices and communication with stakeholders.

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

When Systems Flatline - Enhancing Incident Response with Learnings from the Medical Field

Explore how medical field strategies can enhance incident response in tech systems, from algorithm-guided decisions to standardized protocols for effective management and resolution.

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

Ceci N'est Pas un CPU Load

Explore the limitations of digital troubleshooting compared to analog electronics, and discover why our mental models for digital systems are constrained.

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

Spike Detection in Alert Correlation at LinkedIn

Discover how LinkedIn uses spike detection in alert correlation to quickly identify root causes of outages in their complex microservices architecture, reducing false positives and engineer toil.

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

Risky Business - Investigating the Security Practices of Vendors on an Online Anonymous Market Using Ground-Truth Data

Investigates security practices of vendors on dark web markets, revealing surprising vulnerabilities among digital item sellers compared to drug vendors. Analyzes password strength, 2FA usage, and PGP adoption.

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

Argus - Debugging Performance Issues in Modern Desktop Applications with Annotated Causal Tracing

Innovative tool for debugging performance issues in desktop applications, using annotated causal tracing to model ambiguities and efficiently diagnose root causes of slowdowns.

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

Octo - INT8 Training with Loss-aware Compensation and Backward Quantization for Tiny On-device Learning

Explores INT8 quantization for on-device learning, introducing Loss-aware Compensation and Parameterized Range Clipping to optimize forward and backward passes while preserving training quality.

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

RainBlock - Faster Transaction Processing in Public Blockchains

Innovative blockchain architecture that significantly increases transaction processing speed without modifying proof-of-work consensus, using novel data structures and I/O optimization techniques.

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

RIFF - Reduced Instruction Footprint for Coverage-Guided Fuzzing

Efficient coverage measurement technique for fuzzing, reducing overhead in runtime collection and post-execution processing. Improves fuzzer performance and coverage exploration.

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

Accelerating Encrypted Deduplication via SGX

Explore SGXDedup, a novel approach leveraging Intel SGX to accelerate encrypted deduplication for outsourced storage, offering significant performance improvements while maintaining security and efficiency.

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

ICARUS - Attacking Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks

Explores vulnerabilities in low Earth orbit satellite networks, introducing ICARUS attacks that exploit global accessibility, low-latency constraints, and network predictability to disrupt communications over large areas.

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

Controlling Memory Footprint of Stateful Streaming Graph Processing

Innovative techniques for reducing memory usage in streaming graph processing systems, enabling analysis of larger dynamic graphs while maintaining performance and accuracy.

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