System Architecture Courses and Certifications

Devoxx

Distributed Tracing as Architecture

Pragmatic approach to system architecture using distributed tracing. Validate and evolve design from running applications, with EKS on AWS and XRay as practical examples.

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

USENIX

Meaningful Availability

Explores a new availability metric for cloud applications: windowed user-uptime. Discusses its advantages over traditional metrics in accurately reflecting user experience and distinguishing outage patterns.

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

USENIX

What Happens When You Type en.wikipedia.org

Explore Wikipedia's server-side architecture, from routers to microservices, and learn how open-source technologies power one of the world's top websites.

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

USENIX

Packet Order Matters! Improving Application Performance by Deliberately Delaying Packets

Explores improving application performance by deliberately delaying and reordering network packets to increase traffic locality, enhancing cache efficiency in high-speed network interfaces.

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

USENIX

Beyond Malloc Efficiency to Fleet Efficiency - A Hugepage-Aware Memory Allocator

Explore TEMERAIRE, a hugepage-aware memory allocator enhancing TCMALLOC to reduce CPU overheads, improve application performance, and optimize fleet efficiency in warehouse-scale computing.

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

Trusted Execution Environments - A Technical Overview of Intel SGX, Arm TrustZone, and RISC-V PMP

Explore key trusted execution environments: Intel SGX, Arm TrustZone, and RISC-V PMP. Learn their architectures, security features, and implementation processes for robust data protection.

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

How We Saved 5x Migrating from Aurora to FoundationDB

Explore Segment's migration from Aurora to FoundationDB, detailing architecture, cost savings, and operational challenges in identity resolution for customer Personas modeling.

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

Living on Master - Using Yocto Project, Jenkins and LAVA for a Rolling Release

Explore continuous integration for Yocto Project using Jenkins and LAVA, focusing on real-time Linux kernel testing and addressing challenges in maintaining up-to-date embedded systems.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Zipline - A Declarative Feature Engineering Library

Explore Zipline, Airbnb's declarative feature engineering library for ML, reducing data preparation time from months to days and enabling efficient point-in-time correct feature generation.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Everything You Wanted to Know About Distributed Tracing

Explore distributed tracing in microservices: concepts, implementation patterns, and troubleshooting techniques. Learn about OpenTelemetry and its benefits for modern, polyglot environments.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Scalable Anomaly Detection - With Zero Machine Learning

Explore Netflix's innovative approach to detecting anomalies in complex distributed systems using stream processing and simple algorithms, without relying on machine learning.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Building a Distributed Build System at Google Scale

Explore the evolution and challenges of distributed build systems, focusing on Google's scalable solutions for fast and resilient development workflows.

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

Strange Loop Conference

Performance Engineering at MasterCard

Explore high-volume, low-latency performance engineering at MasterCard, covering real-time fraud detection, system architecture, testing strategies, and optimization techniques for millisecond-level transaction processing.

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

OWASP Foundation

Next Gen Web Pen Testing - Handling Modern Applications in a Penetration Test

Explore modern web application security testing techniques, including HTTP/2, WebSockets, CORS, REST APIs, and Content Security Policy. Learn to adapt penetration testing methods for evolving technologies.

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

Helm Charts vs. Kubernetes Operators: Choosing the Right Abstraction - CNCF

Explore the operator pattern, its libraries, and tradeoffs in Kubernetes. Learn about SG and S3 operators, testing, complexity, and abstraction layers.

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