USENIX celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2025. We celebrate decades of innovations, experiments, and gatherings of the advanced computing system community. And in the spirit of our ever-evolving ...

Solid-state drives (SSDs) are used in a wide array of computer systems today, including in datacenters and enterprise servers. As the I/O demands of these systems have increased, manufacturers have ...

We introduce protocol-aware recovery (PAR), a new approach that exploits protocol-specific knowledge to correctly recover from storage faults in distributed systems. We demonstrate the efficacy of PAR ...

Who Is Answering My Queries: Understanding and Characterizing Interception of the DNS Resolution Path ...

Memcached is a well known, simple, in memory caching solution. This paper describes how Facebook leverages memcached as a building block to construct and scale a distributed key-value store that ...

We demonstrate that an Internet of Things (IoT) botnet of high wattage devices–such as air conditioners and heaters–gives a unique ability to adversaries to launch large-scale coordinated attacks on ...

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FIRM: An Intelligent Fine-grained Resource Management Framework for SLO-Oriented Microservices ...

We introduce BOURBON, a log-structured merge (LSM) tree that utilizes machine learning to provide fast lookups. We base the design and implementation of BOURBON on empirically-grounded principles that ...

Password managers have the potential to help users more effectively manage their passwords and address many of the concerns surrounding password-based authentication. However, prior research has ...

Cyber attacks against IoT devices are a severe threat. These attacks exploit software vulnerabilities in IoT firmware. Fuzzing is an effective software testing technique for finding these ...

Developed for over 30 years, Linux has already become the computing foundation for today's digital world; from gigantic, complex mainframes (e.g., supercomputers) to cheap, wimpy embedded devices (e.g ...