Users Really Do Answer Telephone Scams
Explores factors influencing susceptibility to telephone scams through ethical phishing experiments, revealing the significant impact of spoofed Caller ID on victims' willingness to disclose sensitive information.
Data Domain Cloud Tier - Backup Here, Backup There, Deduplicated Everywhere!
Innovative cloud tier for Data Domain appliances, enabling cost-effective deduplication in the cloud. Focuses on space estimation, efficient data transfer, and file management between on-premises and cloud storage.
Measure, Then Build
Explore an empirically-driven approach to systems research, focusing on analyzing existing systems before designing new solutions. Learn from two decades of research examples at UW-Madison.
Transactuations - Where Transactions Meet the Physical World
Exploring transactuations: a novel abstraction for building reliable IoT applications, addressing inconsistencies in smart home environments caused by failures and unwanted interleaving.
From Laptop to Lambda - Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Transient Functional Containers
Explore gg, a framework enabling near-interactive execution of everyday tasks using thousands of parallel cloud functions, revolutionizing how we approach resource-intensive computing jobs.
Unification of Temporary Storage in the NodeKernel Architecture
Explores NodeKernel architecture for efficient temporary data storage, fusing file system and key-value semantics to enhance performance in data processing frameworks using modern hardware.
R2P2 - Making RPCs First-Class Datacenter Citizens
Innovative UDP-based protocol for efficient RPC routing in datacenters, improving tail latency and throughput for μs-scale applications through centralized load balancing and in-network scheduling.
Cross-Dataset Time Series Anomaly Detection for Cloud Systems
Innovative approach combining transfer and active learning for detecting anomalies in cloud systems using limited labeled data, improving efficiency in maintaining service availability.
A Dashboard Is Worth a Thousand Words - Better Monitoring for Better Ops
Explore how CERN's new monitoring system improved service operations and fostered SRE practices, discussing design decisions, operational challenges, and the benefits of implementing SLIs/SLOs.
HBase Internals and Operations
Explore HBase architecture, components, and key metrics for efficient high-availability operations in this comprehensive overview of the Hadoop-based key-value datastore.
Software Networking and Interfaces on Linux
Comprehensive overview of Linux network interfaces, from traditional to modern cloud-native types. Explores VMs, containers, and service meshes, aiding in debugging cloud platforms.
Code-Yellow - Helping Operations Top-Heavy Teams the Smart Way
Explore LinkedIn's "Code Yellow" process for identifying and supporting struggling teams, with insights on root causes and organizational strategies for improvement.
SRE & Product Management - How to Level up Your Team and Career by Thinking like a Product Manager
Discover strategies to enhance SRE teams by adopting product management principles, focusing on user-centric approaches to build scalable, opinionated, and usable platforms and tooling for engineers and developers.
Chaos Engineering
Explore Netflix's approach to chaos engineering, its impact on system resilience, and lessons learned in building a robust software stack through controlled failure experiments.
Debugging Linux Issues with eBPF
Explore eBPF for debugging Linux performance issues, focusing on a real-world case of CPU increase in Kafka after a Debian upgrade. Learn tools and techniques for operational engineers.
Serverless Ops - What to Do When the Server Goes Away
Explore the impact of serverless architecture on operations, redefining roles and responsibilities. Learn to adapt, prove value, and navigate the changing landscape of cloud technology.
Incident Management at Netflix Velocity
Discover Netflix's approach to handling incidents at high velocity, focusing on preparation, expertise, and continuous learning to ensure quick recovery and unique outage scenarios.
Kafka on Kubernetes - From Evaluation to Production at Intuit
Explore Intuit's journey of running Kafka on Kubernetes in AWS, covering evaluation, testing, configuration, and integration with monitoring tools. Learn about challenges faced and solutions implemented.
SLO Burn - Reducing Alert Fatigue and Maintenance Cost in Systems of Any Size
Discover strategies to reduce alert fatigue and maintenance costs in systems of any size using Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and symptom-based alerting with Prometheus.
Cross Atlantic - Scaling Instagram Infrastructure from US to Europe
Scaling Instagram's infrastructure across continents: challenges, solutions, and disaster recovery strategies for deploying stateful services and partitioning Cassandra databases between US and Europe.
Apache Kafka and KSQL in Action - Let's Build a Streaming Data Pipeline
Build real-time streaming data pipelines using Apache Kafka and KSQL. Learn architectural benefits, data integration, filtering, enrichment, and anomaly detection through practical demonstrations.