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

Patterns, Not Categories - Learning Across Incidents

Explore a pattern-centered approach to outage analysis, moving beyond traditional categorization methods to identify fundamental failure patterns in complex systems for improved reliability decision-making.

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

Taming Spiky Log Volumes - Maintaining Real-Time Log Accessibility with Kaldb

Explore strategies for managing high-volume log data and maintaining real-time accessibility using Kaldb. Learn techniques to handle spiky log volumes efficiently in large-scale systems.

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

The Secret Weapon for a Successful SRE Career - And It's Not What You Think

Discover how soft skills can be the key to a successful SRE career. Learn practical techniques to develop interpersonal abilities, regardless of personality type, and understand their crucial role in the SRE discipline.

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

What Is Linux Kernel Keystore and Why You Should Use It in Your Next Application

Explore Linux Kernel Keystore's secure credential management for applications, integrating with security hardware and protecting secrets from memory vulnerabilities in cloud environments.

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

Untangling the Tangled Cloud

Strategies for organizing cloud resources into logical groups, focusing on high cohesion and low coupling. Introduces Ferent, an open-source tool for measuring inter-project dependencies in Google Cloud.

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

SRE Engagement Model Transition in Building and Expanding SRE Team

Explore the evolution of an SRE team's engagement model, from startup to supporting a 400-person organization. Learn strategies for adapting to growth challenges through three key phases: Launch, Specialization, and Expansion.

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

Empowering Azure Storage with RDMA

Exploring Azure's implementation of RDMA for storage, addressing challenges in regional deployment and achieving significant performance improvements and CPU savings.

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

Better Together - Jointly Optimizing ML Collective Scheduling and Execution Planning Using SYNDICATE

Optimizing ML training with SYNDICATE: A framework that minimizes communication bottlenecks and speeds up training for large-scale models through novel motif abstraction and joint optimization techniques.

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

Building Flexible, Low-Cost Wireless Access Networks With Magma

Magma: An open system for building affordable wireless networks in underserved areas, leveraging Internet design patterns and SDN principles to reduce costs and complexity while maintaining key cellular features.

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

Push-Button Reliability Testing for Cloud-Backed Applications with Rainmaker

Explore Rainmaker, a tool for reliability testing of cloud-backed applications. Learn about its fault injection techniques, automatic policies, and success in detecting bugs in popular software.

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

Understanding RDMA Microarchitecture Resources for Performance Isolation

Explores RDMA performance isolation challenges in cloud environments, presenting a model for RNIC resource usage and a test suite to evaluate isolation solutions, offering insights for future designs.

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

Fast, Approximate Vector Queries on Very Large Unstructured Datasets

Explore Auncel, a vector query engine for large datasets, offering bounded errors and latencies. Learn how it outperforms existing solutions in processing high-dimensional data efficiently.

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