USENIX Courses

Gearbox - A Hierarchical Packet Scheduler for Approximate Weighted Fair Queuing

10 reviews

Hierarchical packet scheduler for approximate weighted fair queuing, offering efficient bandwidth allocation and flow isolation in high-speed networks with low complexity and resource usage.

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

Building Service Ownership Using Documentation, Telemetry, and a Chance to Make Things Better

1 review

Explore strategies for building distributed service ownership in software teams, focusing on documentation, telemetry, and empowering teams to drive improvements in system reliability and performance.

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

An Evaluation of ECG Use in Cryptography for Implantable Medical Devices and Body Area Networks

1 review

Evaluates ECG-based cryptography for medical devices, discussing security assumptions, randomness extraction, and potential vulnerabilities in authentication protocols using physiological data.

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

How to Not Destroy Your Production Kubernetes Clusters

Learn from real Kubernetes production incidents and best practices for maintaining high cluster availability, focusing on challenges with large-scale deployments and common operational pitfalls.

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

SRE and ML - Why It Matters

Explore the intersection of SRE and Machine Learning, discussing its importance, challenges in ML reliability, and potential changes to the SRE profession. Skeptically examines ML automation in production.

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

Knowledge and Power - A Sociotechnical Systems Discussion on the Future of SRE

Exploring sociotechnical systems in SRE, balancing operational load with learning, and examining knowledge sharing and risk reduction. Offers new perspectives on organizational structures shaping work practices.

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

Amazon DynamoDB - A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service

Explore Amazon DynamoDB's architecture, scalability, and performance optimizations. Learn how it handles massive workloads, ensures reliability, and evolves to meet increasing demands.

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

Tracing Bare Metal with OpenTelemetry

Explore how Equinix Metal implemented OpenTelemetry tracing for bare metal provisioning, improving debugging and reliability across their global infrastructure.

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

Improving How We Observe Our Observability Data - Techniques for SREs

Explore techniques to enhance observability data visualization for SREs, including multivariate relationships, small multiples, and sparklines, while avoiding common pitfalls in engineering presentations.

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

DO, RE, Me - Measuring the Effectiveness of Site Reliability Engineering

Explore the relationship between DevOps and SRE, their effectiveness, and how elite software delivery teams can benefit from modernizing technical operations.

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

The Future of Above-the-Line Tooling

Explore the future of Above-the-Line tooling in complex systems, its challenges, and potential functions. Learn from experts about improving system monitoring and human performance in critical environments.

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

Tales from the VOID - The Scary Truth about Incident Metrics

Challenges industry-standard incident metrics, proposing alternative approaches for better system resilience. Explores VOID database insights to improve incident response and organizational learning.

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

EBPF - The Next Power Tool of SREs

Explore eBPF, a revolutionary Linux kernel technology for infrastructure observation and protection. Learn its capabilities, use cases, and implementation for enhanced system reliability and security.

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

Building a Path to the Future - Mentoring New SREs

Strategies for effective mentorship in SRE, focusing on remote work challenges and the importance of guiding principles, documentation, and sponsorship for career growth.

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

Principled Performance Analytics

Explore innovative analytical methods for high-fidelity insights in distributed systems, focusing on performance analytics, statistical approaches, and practical applications in complex services at scale.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk