Virtual Event | OCTOBER 21 + 22, 2026
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Tomás Senart wrote Vegeta, the open-source Go HTTP load tester, and presented its design at dotGo. He is the founder of Perfloop. Most recently, as Principal Engineer at Axiom, he scaled EventDB to petabyte workloads across ingestion, compaction, and interactive analytics. He built Haydex, a filtering system that scaled to 178 billion rows per second, enabling trillion-row searches over PB-scale datasets, and led performance work across ingestion and query paths. Before Axiom, four years at Sourcegraph as Staff Engineer, leading the backend and Cloud teams and contributing to scaling sourcegraph.com search across 5 million open-source repositories with sub-second P90 latency. Fifteen-plus years on distributed systems performance, from load generators to large-scale database internals. - GitHub: https://github.com/tsenart - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsenart/ - X / Twitter: https://x.com/tsenart
Thomas J. Varley is a senior engineer specializing in large-scale distributed systems, observability, and high-performance data platforms. With deep expertise in building resilient, cloud-native architectures, he has consistently driven the design and evolution of systems that operate at massive scale while maintaining strong guarantees around reliability, latency, and data integrity. His work spans advanced telemetry pipelines, real-time analytics, and next-generation tracing platforms, with a focus on transforming raw signals into actionable insights. Known for combining rigorous systems thinking with practical execution, Thomas brings a track record of leading complex initiatives, influencing platform strategy, and advancing the state of observability in modern distributed environments.
Seasoned technologist with over 18 years of profound expertise in crafting scalable and resilient distributed systems that handle petabytes of unstructured data daily. Spearheaded the architecture and design of various cloud-native SaaS solutions. His diverse industry exposure encompasses E-commerce, Embedded systems, and Telecom sectors. Sudeep has taken the stage at several international conferences in countries including Japan, the USA, the UK, and India. He is a primary author of various papers featured in IEEE and other international conferences. Sudeep also holds multiple patents in the realms of payments, e-commerce, and distributed systems. Sudeep's technical forte lies in addressing Big data challenges, Monitoring/Telemetry, developing cloud-native platforms and frameworks, client-side programming, and creating scalable server-side backends.
Roman is a software engineer with experience in distributed systems, databases, monitoring, and high-performance microservices. Roman's passion is open source and he's proud to have contributions to Prometheus, Grafana, and ClickHouse. Currently, Roman is working on the open source time series database and monitoring solution VictoriaMetrics.
Piyush Narang presently the Chief Architect at Zipline.ai and is a PMC member of the Chronon open source project. Previously he worked as a Staff Engineer / Tech Lead of Stripe's Shepherd ML feature computation platform (https://stripe.com/blog/shepherd-how-stripe-adapted-chronon-to-scale-ml-feature-development). At Stripe and prior roles (Criteo, Twitter, Amazon), he has helped build data and ML services and libraries at extremely low latencies, high data scale and with the operational rigor to support a critical part of the company's business. His interests lie in solving hard problems at the intersection of infrastructure, big data and machine learning.
Nikhil works on drone infrastructure at Skydio. He is interested in the craft of Software Engineering, including testing methodologies and programming paradigms to implement bug-free software.
Nathan VanBenschoten is the Chief Architect at turbopuffer, where he works on fast, cheap, scalable vector search. Before joining turbopuffer, Nathan was a principal engineer at CockroachDB, where he led transactions and replication.
Linux, Networking, and Go are my core areas, with Kubernetes at the intersection. I primarily develop in Go (the language behind most CNCF projects) on my Linux-based ThinkPad. Additionally, I organize events at Cloud Native Lima, the community that co-created the first KCD in Peru. I started with AWS but primarily work with Azure professionally.
Daniel Lemire is a full professor of computer science at the Université du Québec (TELUQ) in Montreal. He specializes in software performance, SIMD vectorization, data indexing, parsing, and high-speed data engineering. He ranks among the top 2% of scientists worldwide by citations (Stanford/Elsevier 2025 ranking) and is one of GitHub’s top 1,000 most-followed developers. His open-source contributions have been widely adopted by major systems, including:
Tyson Brown is a Lead Consultant at Thoughtworks with 20 years in enterprise systems, from MRI machines to financial platforms. He built Celeriant - an open source Rust event sourcing database - after watching his clients struggle with event sourcing patterns.
Simran is a Senior Software Engineer at Ampere Computing developing benchmarks and frameworks to evaluate, scale performance of LLM and ML workloads on current and future aarch64 based compute platforms. She works on identifying bottlenecks, workload characterization, and driving performance improvements in software stacks. She is solving problems at the intersection of software, infrastructure and hardware - pushing the limits of cloud compute!
Rajat is a Staff Software Engineer at Netflix, leading the technical architecture for the global ML Model Serving Infrastructure. Over a decade at Netflix and Amazon, he has specialized in building highly available distributed systems and stable, usable ML platforms that power recommender systems, search, and payments at scale. A recipient of Amazon’s prestigious "Just Do It" Award by Jeff Bezos for his bias for action, Rajat excels at abstracting distributed computing complexities to drive developer velocity and platform reliability. He holds a Master’s in Machine Learning from North Carolina State University, blending deep theoretical knowledge with a proven track record of solving massive-scale infrastructure challenges.
Prashant Pathak is a Senior Principal Software Performance Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, where he leads query optimization and performance architecture for large-scale cloud security infrastructure. He holds two granted U.S. patents in distributed query optimization with production deployments achieving over 95% query latency reduction and 8-10x throughput improvement. Prior to PAN, Prashant was a Performance and Scalability Engineer at Apple, where he was responsible for multiple Apple Pay transit launches across major cities in Asia and North America, as well as performance infrastructure for Apple Card. Prashant's work spans query optimization, distributed systems performance, cloud infrastructure observability, and machine learning for database cost prediction.
I work primarily on the open source Valkey project and evangelize the importance of open source software development.I work primarily on the open source Valkey project and evangelize the importance of open source software development.
Jared started optimizing Linux in the 20th century. He's hacked Linux phones before Android, SSDs before NAND, PCIe storage before NVME, pmem before Optane, filesystems before they were cool, SQL before Postgres won, and AI before ChatGPT. Now he's excited to see the future of computing he worked for become the present.
Hayden is an engineering manager at HERE Technologies, focused on serving real-time traffic information to end users in great detail at low latency (increasingly using Rust). He’s a passionate Rust developer and is a core member of the tokio-rs maintainer team and the defacto maintainer of the Tracing and Tokio Console crates. GitHub: https://github.com/hds Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@hds BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/hds.cafe
- Compiler Engineer at Microsoft, more specifically working on the Triton to MAIA compiler - Enthusiast of fast software - Interested in Compilers, Algorithms, C++, Reflection, Efficient Data Structures, Low-latency, Optimization, LLM Inference, Profiling, Performance and Game Theory - Contributed to a few open-source projects like simdjson, mirror_bridge, karger-klein-tarjan
Evan has been building high performance data systems for 20+ years. He is working on custom databases and streaming systems serving trillions of events per day, using Rust, Apache DataFusion, Arrow, Tantivy, etc. He led a team developing FiloDB, an open source distributed real-time time series database, used as a production telemetry DB at Apple. He has architected, developed, and productionized large scale data and telemetry systems at companies including Apple, and loves solving the most challenging technical problems at both large and small scales, from advanced custom data structures to distributed coordination. He has led the design and implementation of multiple big data platforms based on Rust, DataFusion, Arrow, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, and Scala/Akka. He has contributed to Spark and DataFusion/Arrow, and was a two-time Datastax Cassandra MVP.
Elvis Chidera is a staff software engineer at Delivery Hero, based in Berlin. He has previously worked for Careem (acquired by Uber) and for a few startups in the USA. His expertise is in mobile app development, but he has worked across the typical software stacks.
I am a PhD student at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where my main research topic is improving content delivery. Additionally, I work as a Performance Engineer at CDN77, where my job is to address all performance-related issues, ranging from debugging kernel drivers to improving the caching capabilities of the CDN.
Peter Mbanugo is a Software Engineering Consultant at IT Services Peter Mbanugo.
I'm Chip Huyen, a writer and computer scientist. I'm building infrastructure or real-time ML. I also teach Machine Learning Systems Design at Stanford. Previously, I was with Snorkel AI, NVIDIA, Netflix, Primer, Baomoi.com (acquired by VNG). I helped launch Coc Coc - Vietnam’s second most popular web browser with 20+ million monthly active users. In my free time, I travel and write. After high school, I went to Brunei for a 3-day vacation which turned into a 3-year trip through Asia, Africa, and South America. During my trip, I worked as a Bollywood extra, a casino hostess, and a street performer. I’m the author of four bestselling Vietnamese books. I’m working on an English book on machine learning interviews.
Dylan leads the feature flag team lead at PostHog. He loves typed languages, skiing, jazz piano, producing music, and powerlifting.
Janani Narayanan is a Senior Staff Engineer at Uber.
Gunnar Morling is an open-source software engineer in the Java and data streaming space, currently working as a Technologist at Confluent. Previously, he helped to build a realtime stream processing platform based on Apache Flink and led the Debezium project, a distributed platform for change data capture. He is a Java Champion and has founded multiple open source projects such as Hardwood, kcctl, JfrUnit, and MapStruct. Gunnar is an avid blogger (morling.dev) and has spoken at various conferences like QCon, Java One, and Devoxx. He lives in Hamburg, Germany.
Founder & CTO of LaserData, Apache Iggy Committer, PPMC, and a full-time open-source contributor. In a previous chapter, I spent over a decade in the C#/.NET ecosystem building a wide range of applications, including high-performance systems.
Dominik Tornow is CEO and founder of Resonate HQ, Inc. Dominik focuses on correctness, reliability, and scalability of distributed systems. He is the author of Thinking in Distributed Systems.
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.
Adrien is an engineer at turbopuffer focused primarily on full-text search. Prior to joining turbopuffer, he worked as a distinguished engineer at Elastic. He as an Apache Lucene committer, with over 15 years of experience building text search systems.
Gwen is a co-founder and CPO of Nile (thenile.dev). She has 25 years of experience working with code and customers to build reliable and scalable data architectures - most recently as the head of Cloud Native Kafka engineering org at Confluent. Gwen is a committer to Apache Kafka, author of “Kafka - the Definitive Guide” and "Hadoop Application Architectures". You can find her speaking at tech conferences or talking data at the SaaS Developer Community.
Georg Kreuzmayr is a Software Engineer at TigerBeetle, where he works on database internals and low-level systems infrastructure. His work spans high-performance networking, deterministic simulation testing, and low-level protocol implementation. He is based in Munich / Germany.
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.
Catherine Jue is the Co-Founder of KERNEL.
Den Odell is an Author at Manning and Staff Engineer at Canva
Francesco Nigro is a Senior Principal Software Performance Engineer at IBM.
Sam Rose is a Developer Educator at ngrok creating deep, visual, and interactive content aimed at helping developers truly understand the topics they're reading about.
Cristian Velazquez is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer on the Maps Production Engineering team at Uber. He works on multiple efficiency initiatives across multiple organizations. He leads the GC tuning efforts across the company.
I write (and shoot) deep dives about Rust, performance, operating system stuff, videography, and whatever else I feel my wonderful patrons & sponsors will like learning about. I'm extremely lucky to do this full time for now.
PostgreSQL continues to evolve with vector search extensions like pgvector and pgvecto.rs. We’ll explore recent benchmarks comparing vector search performance across various datasets and configurations, highlighting PostgreSQL’s adaptability in modern use cases. #PostgreSQL #VectorSearch
Daniel started his career as PhD student in the area of cloud computing with a focus on distributed databases in the cloud. Further interests cover cloud orchestration, model-driven engineering, and performance evaluations of distributed systems. After completing his PhD, Daniel has co-founded the Benchmarking-as-a-Service platform benchANT where he is responsible for the product development.
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 the 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.
Ragnar recently obtained his PhD in high throughput bioinformatics at ETH Zurich. His work is on writing high performance libraries for fundamental tasks in bioinformatics, such as minimal perfect hashing, and designing algorithms and datastructures that are optimized for modern hardware. Ragnar is author of the blog curiouscoding.nl.
Joe is an enthusiastic advocate for cloud-native technologies. Having served as the CTO of a dynamic start-up company, Joe excels at directing and inspiring team members to deliver exceptional results. Currently, Joe proudly serves as the Lead Developer Advocate in North America at JuiceFS, a high-performance, cloud-native, distributed file system. He dedicates his role to promoting this innovative solution and enabling AI/ML engineers, software developers, and platform teams to utilize JuiceFS capabilities for optimal performance and efficiency.
Distributed computing and storage engineer for HPC, microservices and ML/Data platforms for many years. Evangelist of type-driven development and category theory for developers.
Hello, I'm Almog: co-founder of Responsive! I've spent a decade working on industry's hardest problems in distributed systems, starting with search infrastructure at LinkedIn before moving on to realtime data processing. I enjoy sharing insights I've stumbled on throughout my career about the internals of data systems and the future of data infrastructure.
Computer scientist with 14 years of experience, Jubin is a Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo Finance, where he leads Data Infrastructure and Platforms team. Author of the upcoming Manning book AI-Native Infrastructure, and speaker at conferences including P99 Conf and API Days. Jubin has deep expertise in AI, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, he focuses on building resilient platforms for real-time and big data processing. Jubin has authored and peer reviewed technical papers such as IEEE, served on jury panels for technology awards, and shares his insights through industry publications. He is passionate about advancing the state of big data and event-driven systems.
Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona, Coroot and other tech companies. As one of the leading experts in Open Source strategy and database optimization, Peter has applied his technical knowledge and entrepreneurial drive to contribute as a board member and advisor to several open source startups. Additionally, Peter is the co-author of the book "High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backup and Replication," one of the most popular books on MySQL performance.
Filipe is a Performance Engineer working at the core of Redis, focused on performance analysis and core system optimization. He has designed and automated performance pipelines that integrate profiling, benchmarking, and telemetry data at scale.
Felipe is CEO and Co-Founder of Unikraft, a start-up building the next generation cloud platform. Prior he worked as chief researcher at NEC Laboratories Europe, has published in several top tier conferences such as SOSP, ASPLOS, OSDI, Eurosys, SIGCOMM, NSDI and CoNEXT, and has given talks at Open Source Summit, P99, AI Council and QCon, among others. Finally, Felipe is one of the founders and maintainers of the Linux Foundation Unikraft open source project.
Jarred Sumner is the Founder & CEO of Bun.
Gil Tene is CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems. He has been involved with virtual machine technologies for the past 20 years and has been building Java technology-based products since 1995. Gil pioneered Azul’s Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector (C4), Java Virtualization, Elastic Memory, and various managed runtime and systems stack technologies that combine to deliver the industry’s most scalable and robust Java platforms. Gil also represents Azul Systems on the JCP (Java Community Process) executive committee.
Andy Pavlo is an Associate Professor of Databaseology in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His (unnatural) infatuation with database systems has inadvertently caused him to incur several distinctions, such as VLDB Early Career Award (2021), NSF CAREER (2019), Sloan Fellowship (2018), and the ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Best Dissertation Award (2014). He was also the CEO & co-founder of the OtterTune database tuning start-up (2020).
Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, now part of Cisco, who are the original creators of the Cilium project. She was chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of Container Security, published by O'Reilly. She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, competing in virtual races on Zwift, and making music under the pseudonym Insider Nine.
Ashutosh Agrawal is a Staff Software Engineer for Google Gemini.
Pekka Enberg is the Founder & CTO at Turso.
Carl Lerche is a Principal Engineer at AWS. He is best known for his open source Rust libraries, primarily Tokio, the asynchronous I/O runtime for Rust.
Dr. Stonebraker has been a pioneer of database research and technology for more than forty years. He was the main architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, and the object- relational DBMS, POSTGRES. These prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science for twenty five years. More recently at M.I.T. he was a co-architect of the Aurora/Borealis stream processing engine, the C-Store column-oriented DBMS, the H-Store transaction processing engine, the SciDB array DBMS, and the Data Tamer data curation system. Presently he serves as Chief Technology Officer of DBOS, Inc., Tamr, Inc., and Paradigm4. Professor Stonebraker was awarded the ACM System Software Award in 1992 for his work on INGRES. Additionally, he was awarded the first annual SIGMOD Innovation award in 1994, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997. He was awarded the IEEE John Von Neumann award in 2005 and the 2014 Turing Award, and is presently an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at M.I.T, where he is co-director of the Intel Science and Technology Center focused on big data.
Manya is a second-year computer science PhD student at MIT. She is interested in designing extensible and productive languages (and tools!) for heterogeneous systems.
Aleksei is a staff software engineer at TigerBeetle. Before that, Aleksei worked on IDE support for the Rust programming language, but TigerBeetle's deterministic, non-allocating Zig codebase proved too hard to resist.
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.
Charity is the co-founder and CTO of honeycomb.io, which is bringing observability tooling into the era of distributed systems. She is the co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering (O'Reilly), and has worked at companies like Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab. She loves free speech, free software and single malt scotch.
Wednesday, October 21
8:00am – 1:00pm Pacific Time
16:00 – 20:00 UTC
Thursday, October 22
8:00am – 1:00pm Pacific Time
16:00 – 20:00 UTC
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Full agenda will be announced soon.
P99 CONF nails it in terms of both content, *and* UX for attending. Super-simple & free registration. Videos available on-demand afterwards with no gating or games. Clear and usable website. These folk know how to do a developer conference. A+++https://t.co/CNvMmGdfK7
— Robin Moffatt 🍻🏃🥓 (@rmoff) November 10, 2025
Scylla folks are killing it as usual with the P99 Conf lineup.
— Phil Eaton (@eatonphil) May 19, 2024
Pekka Enberg, Liz Rice, Michael Stonebraker, Andy Pavlo, Bryan Cantrill, Tanel Poder, Gunnar Morling, Ashley Williams, and more.
What a gang. Free and virtual.https://t.co/A9ogGr3woj
Great #p99conf so far -- a masterclass on all the kinds of latency in services, and then a really interesting talk from someone building their own toy operating system, and the latency challenges they solved in it.
— Adam Chalmers (@adamchalmers.com) October 23, 2024 at 10:00 AM
The Scylla team’s conferences—P99 CONF and Monster Scale Summit— are top-tier. The hardest part is choosing a track when every session looks great. And the swag is in its own league 🙂
— Ivan Burmistrov (@isburmistrov.bsky.social) March 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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😍 eBee has flown onto the sticker pack for #p99conf ! And look how nicely the ScyllaDB monster is gazing up at her 😀
— Liz Rice 💛💙🐝 (@lizrice.com) October 1, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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Excited for Day 2 @P99CONF with this cute little guest 🥰 #P99CONF pic.twitter.com/FiyO8ffqpN
— Aadhav Vignesh (@carrotburnt) October 24, 2024
The banger opening presentation at P99 Conf by Professor Andy Pavlo
— v (@avi.im) October 26, 2024 at 7:34 PM
watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD-0dw4gUhw
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P99 conf videos are available here p99conf.io.staging.tenrec.com If you enjoy things like low-latency, high-performance or distributed systems I am sure you'll find something you like!
— Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar (@migue.bsky.social) October 25, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Never have I wanted a swag pack so much #P99CONF #ScyllaDB
— Peter Bowyer (@peterbowyer) October 24, 2024
My @plotlygraphs T-shirt is 10yrs old and must go... pic.twitter.com/Qq3U3wT6OO
Andy Pavlo's talk at #P99CONF was mind blowing. Beautiful synergy between eBPF and databases explained with some great performance benchmark numbers. Looking forward to reading more on this from the CMU report - https://t.co/Ulc877HtKy pic.twitter.com/f6PDJhIi98
— Debasish (দেবাশিস্) Ghosh 🇮🇳 (@debasishg) October 26, 2024
An awesome talk by Cristian Velazquez (Uber) on enhancing P99 latency for third-party APIs (yup!), full of adventures and very interesting solutions! Definitely going to apply some of them for our use cases!#P99CONF #ScyllaDB pic.twitter.com/30qTwdJ4wl
— aksh1618 (@aksh1618) October 24, 2024
congrats to #p99conf for being the best conference at absolutely dominating my timeline with interesting-as-shit talks for two days solid
— knewter 🇺🇲/acc (@knewter) October 26, 2024
#P99CONF has been dope. always great listening to brilliant engineers..
— Julian Dumebi Duru (@durutheguru) October 23, 2024
There’s no other event like this — a conference for engineers by engineers, where we’ll share novel approaches for solving complex problems efficiently and at speed. Vendor and tool agnostic, this conference will be for a highly technical audience only. Your boss’s boss is not invited.
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