Virtual Event | OCTOBER 18 + 19, 2023

All Things Performance

Obsessed with P99 percentiles, low-latency engineering, and performance optimizations? Join 1000s of your peers at P99 CONF: a free, highly-technical virtual conference.

Featured Speakers

Explore Rust, C++, Go, event streaming architectures, distributed databases, Linux kernel, observability, K8s & more

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Thoughtworks Emily Gorcenski

Emily Gorcenski

Principal Data Scientist at Thoughtworks
Thoughtworks Emily Gorcenski

Emily Gorcenski

Principal Data Scientist at Thoughtworks
BIO

I am a Principal Data Scientist and Head of Data for Thoughtworks Germany. I have a background in research engineering and computational and applied mathematics. I work as a data and software engineer, developing and architecting data driven applications. I am a strong advocate for data journalism and have contributed research, materials, and expertise to multiple award-winning projects.

Widya Salim

Data Analyst at SEEK

Widya Salim

Data Analyst at SEEK
BIO

Widya Salim is a data scientist & analyst with a total of 6+ years experience in operations and prototyping in the technology sector across Asia, Europe and North America. She was a data scientist intern at Twitter where she focused on inferring causal impact of latency on key business metrics. She is currently a data analyst at SEEK after completing her Masters in National University of Singapore.

Jens Axboe Software Engineer at Meta

Jens Axboe

Software Engineer at Meta
Jens Axboe

Jens Axboe

Software Engineer at Meta
Timur Doumler Developer Advocate for C++ tools at JetBrains

Timur Doumler

Developer Advocate for C++ tools at JetBrains
Timur Doumler

Timur Doumler

Developer Advocate for C++ tools at JetBrains
Jon Haddad Founder at Rustyrazorblade Consulting

Jon Haddad

Founder at Rustyrazorblade Consulting
Jon Haddad

Jon Haddad

Founder at Rustyrazorblade Consulting
Glauber Costa CEO & Co-founder of ChiselStrike

Glauber Costa

CEO & Co-founder of ChiselStrike
Glauber Costa

Glauber Costa

CEO & Co-founder of ChiselStrike
TALK

Rust Is Safe. But Is It Fast?

BIO

Glauber is a veteran low-level engineer with a strong focus on performance and resource management. He has worked with a variety of subsystems in the Linux Kernel, most notably the KVM Hypervisor and the cgroups resource management infrastructure that created the foundations of the containers revolution. Glauber had spent many years with ScyllaDB working with both business and technical issues, specializing in storage I/O and automated resource controlling. Currently he is a Staff Engineer at Datadog, where he authored the Glommio asynchronous framework for Rust.

Zhen Li

Data Scientist at TikTok

Zhen Li

Data Scientist at TikTok
BIO

Zhen Li is a Data Scientist at TikTok.

Tejas Chopra Senior Software Engineer at Netflix

Tejas Chopra

Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Tejas Chopra

Tejas Chopra

Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
TALK

Object Compaction in Cloud for High Yield

BIO

Tejas Chopra is a Senior Software Engineer, working in the Data Storage Platform team at Netflix, where he is responsible for architecting storage solutions to support exabytes of storage generated by Netflix Studios and Netflix Streaming Platform. Tejas has worked on distributed file systems & backend architectures, both in on-premise and cloud environments as part of several startups in his career & has a Masters Degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University

Armin Ronacher Creator of Flask and Principal Architect at Sentry

Armin Ronacher

Creator of Flask and Principal Architect at Sentry

Armin Ronacher

Creator of Flask and Principal Architect at Sentry
BIO

Armin Ronacher is a Principal Architect at Sentry and is the creator of the Flask web framework for Python. He has worked on various Open Source and commercial projects, largely on the backend for the last 10+ years. Prior to joining Sentry, he was a Consultant and a Systems Architect on the Fireline project at Fireteam, leading many Open Source projects like the Flask microframework for Python, the Jinja2 template engine and many more. He has been credited on Batman Arkham Asylum, Halo The Master Chief Collection, and other games. His field of expertise is in large scale backend infrastructure, networking and online services and API design.

Overcoming Variable Payloads to Optimize for Performance

Brian Sletten President at Bosatsu Consulting, Inc.

Brian Sletten

President at Bosatsu Consulting, Inc.
Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten

President at Bosatsu Consulting, Inc.
Avi Kivity CTO and Co-Founder at ScyllaDB

Avi Kivity

CTO and Co-Founder at ScyllaDB
Avi Kivity

Avi Kivity

CTO and Co-Founder at ScyllaDB
BIO

Avi Kivity, CTO of ScyllaDB, is known mostly for starting the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) project, the hypervisor underlying many production clouds. He has worked for Qumranet and Red Hat as KVM maintainer until December 2012. Avi is now CTO of ScyllaDB, a company that seeks to bring the same kind of innovation to the public cloud space.

tim vereecke akamai Web Performance Architect

Tim Vereecke

Web Performance Architect at Akamai
tim-vereecke

Tim Vereecke

Web Performance Architect at Akamai
BIO

Tim Vereecke loves speeding up websites and likes to understand the technical and business aspects of WebPerf since 15+ years. He is a Web Performance Architect at Akamai and also runs scalemates.com: the largest (and fastest!) scale modeling website on the planet.

Dor Laor CEO of ScyllaDB

Dor Laor

CEO of ScyllaDB
Dor Laor

Dor Laor

CEO of ScyllaDB
TALK

Welcome to P99 CONF

BIO

Dor Laor is the CEO of ScyllaDB. Previously, Dor was part of the founding team of the KVM hypervisor under Qumranet that was acquired by Red Hat. At Red Hat Dor was managing the KVM and Xen development for several years. Dor holds an MSc from the Technion and a Phd in snowboarding.

Bryan Cantrill CTO of Oxide Computer Company

Bryan Cantrill

CTO of Oxide Computer Company
Bryan Cantrill

Bryan Cantrill

CTO of Oxide Computer Company
BIO

Bryan Cantrill is a software engineer who has spent a quarter of a century at the hardware/software interface. He is the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, which is endeavoring to build a rack-scale computer for the post-cloud era. Prior to Oxide he spent nearly a decade at Joyent, a cloud computing pioneer; prior to Joyent, he spent fourteen years at Sun Microsystems, a now-defunct computer company that Bryan's nine-year-old daughter apparently thought was a brewery.

Sharpening the Axe: The Primacy of Toolmaking

Pavlo Stavytskyi Senior Software Engineer at Lyft

Pavlo Stavytskyi

Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Turo

Pavlo Stavytskyi

Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Turo
BIO

Pavlo is a Google Developer Expert in Android, and Kotlin. He currently works at Turo as Sr. Staff Software Engineer. He previously worked at Lyft on mobile infrastructure. He develops Android apps, absolutely loves Kotlin language, works with build systems such as Gradle and Bazel, and writes blog posts about it. He is also completing a Ph.D. in software engineering.

Measuring the CPU Performance of Android Apps at Lyft

Gwen Shapira Co-founder & CPO of Nile

Gwen Shapira

Co-founder & CPO of Nile
Gwen Shapira

Gwen Shapira

Co-founder & CPO of Nile
steven rostedt google

Steven Rostedt

Software Engineer at Google
Steven Rostedt

Steven Rostedt

Software Engineer at Google
BIO

Steven Rostedt is a Software Engineer at Google.

Analyze Virtual Machine Overhead Compared to Bare Metal with Tracing

leandro melendez DevRel Performance Advocate at Grafana k6

Leandro Melendez

DevRel Performance Advocate at Grafana k6

Leandro Melendez

DevRel Performance Advocate at Grafana k6
BIO

Leandro is a performance testing advocate with K6-Grafana helping everyone to ramp up on their performance practices. He has over 20 years of experience in IT and over 10 in the performance testing practice where he served multiple S&P500 customers all over the USA, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, India, Austria, etc. Author of the popular performance testing blog Señor Performo (www.srperf.com) where he curates a diverse set of learning material for performance testers and engineers. He is the producer and host of the Spanish language version of the PerfBytes podcast and the Señor Performo learning YouTube channels. He is an international public speaker participating in multiple conferences, events and webinars, with keynotes, workshops and multiple talks on his belt. And last, author of "The Hitchhikers Guide To Load Testing Projects", a fun walkthrough that will guide you through the phases or levels of an IT load testing project.

Continuous Performance from Load Testing to SRE and Beyond

Victor Ma

Senior Data Scientist at Airwallex

Victor Ma

Senior Data Scientist at Airwallex
BIO

Victor is currently a senior data scientist at Airwallex supporting revenue strategy and commercial operations. Previously, he worked at Twitter on performance optimization and infrastructure efficiency, and at the beginning of his career, at MITRE on early warning defense radar systems. In his free time, he is an avid tennis player and calisthenics enthusiast.

Tanel Poder

Owner at Poder Consulting

Tanel Poder

Owner at Poder Consulting
BIO

Tanel Poder is a long-time computer performance geek, working on various complex systems like (Oracle) database clusters, modern Big Data & cloud technologies and anything running on Linux/Unix. He has built and fixed enterprise data systems all around the world, this has also resulted in building a few small-but-very-fun tech companies around better tools and methods. He has two patents in data virtualization space and has realized that this is enough. In addition to his R&D, he occasionally delivers consulting, advisory and training to companies and talks about performance & troubleshooting both at public conferences and his video channels available at his website.

Felipe Huici

CEO and Co-Founder of Unikraft UG

Felipe Huici

CEO and Co-Founder of Unikraft UG
BIO

Dr. Felipe Huici is CEO and Co-Founder of Unikraft UG, a start-up dedicated to lightweight and open source virtualization technologies and to significantly lowering cloud infrastructure bills. In addition, Felipe is a chief researcher at NEC Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg, Germany where his main research and interests lie in the areas of high performance software systems, in particular virtualization, specialization and security. He has published in several top tier conferences such as SOSP, ASPLOS, OSDI, Eurosys, SIGCOMM, NSDI and CoNEXT. Finally, Felipe is one of the founders of the maintainers of the Linux Foundation Unikraft open source project.

It's Time to Debloat the Cloud with Unikraft

william kennedy arden labs

William Kennedy

Managing Partner at Ardan Labs

William Kennedy

Managing Partner at Ardan Labs
BIO

William Kennedy is a managing partner at Ardan Labs in Miami, Florida. Ardan is a group of passionate engineers, artists and business professionals focused on building and delivering reliable, secure and scalable solutions. Bill is also the author of Go in Action and the Ultimate Go Notebook, plus the author of over 100 blog posts and articles about Go. Lastly, he is a founding member of GoBridge and the GDN, which are organizations working to increase Go adoption through diversity.

Evaluating Performance In Go

Schedule

Wednesday, October 18

8:00am – 1:00pm Pacific Time
16:00 – 20:00 UTC

Thursday, October 19

8:00am – 1:00pm Pacific Time
16:00 – 20:00 UTC

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