USENIX Courses

Efficiently Backing Up Terabytes of Data with PgBackRest

Explore efficient PostgreSQL backup solutions with PgBackRest, featuring checksums, compression, parallel transfer, and more. Learn about its design, features, and practical applications for large-scale databases.

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

Multi-Person Localization via RF Body Reflections

RF-based indoor localization system that tracks multiple users' positions and gestures through walls, using wireless signal reflections off bodies. Can even locate static users by detecting breathing movements.

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

Protecting Privacy of BLE Device Users

Explores BLE device privacy vulnerabilities and introduces BLE-Guardian, a system protecting user privacy by controlling device discovery and access without modifying existing devices or protocols.

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

K-Fingerprinting - A Robust Scalable Website Fingerprinting Technique

Explores k-fingerprinting, a robust website fingerprinting technique using random decision forests, demonstrating high accuracy in identifying visited web pages through encrypted connections.

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

UNVEIL - A Large-Scale, Automated Approach to Detecting Ransomware

Automated approach to detect ransomware through dynamic analysis, focusing on file tampering and desktop changes. Improves detection of evasive ransomware unnoticed by traditional antimalware solutions.

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

Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs

Explores model extraction attacks on machine learning systems, demonstrating vulnerabilities in publicly accessible ML interfaces and proposing potential countermeasures to protect confidential models.

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

Virtual U - Defeating Face Liveness Detection by Building Virtual Models from Your Public Photos

Innovative approach to bypass face authentication using 3D models created from social media photos, exploiting virtual reality to simulate liveness and fool security systems.

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

Building a Billion User Load Balancer

Discover Facebook's innovative load balancing techniques for handling billions of users, improving performance, managing capacity, and enhancing reliability at a global scale.

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

MySQL Automation at Facebook Scale

Explore Facebook's MySQL automation systems for managing thousands of servers across data centers, including design, architecture, and real-world challenges faced at massive scale.

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

BetrFS - A Right-Optimized Write-Optimized File System

Explores BetrFS, an innovative file system using write-optimized indexes, showcasing improved performance for microdata operations and large sequential I/O compared to traditional file systems.

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

F2FS - A New File System for Flash Storage

Explore F2FS, a Linux file system optimized for flash storage. Learn its design, data structures, and algorithms, and see how it outperforms EXT4 in various scenarios on mobile and server systems.

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

SRE in the Small and in the Large

Explore SRE principles applicable to organizations of all sizes, from startups to tech giants. Learn key practices for system reliability, scalability, and efficient operations.

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

Network-Based LUKS Volume Decryption with Tang

Network-based LUKS volume decryption using Tang: a solution for secure, automated server disk encryption at scale. Enables unattended boot in secure environments while protecting data at rest from unauthorized access.

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

The Devopsification of Windows Server 2016

Explore Windows Server 2016's DevOps-centric features, including NanoServer, DSC, OneGet, and containers. Learn how these innovations enable cloud-paced workflows and enhance security, deployment, and management.

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

Building a Billion User Load Balancer

Discover Facebook's innovative load balancing techniques for handling over 1.3 billion users, improving performance, managing capacity, and enhancing reliability across global infrastructure.

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