USENIX Courses

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

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