Virtual Event | OCTOBER 18 + 19, 2023
Explore Rust, C++, Go, event streaming architectures, distributed databases, Linux kernel, observability, K8s & more
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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 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.
Rust Is Safe. But Is It Fast?
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 is a Data Scientist at TikTok.
Object Compaction in Cloud for High Yield
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 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
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 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.
Welcome to P99 CONF
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 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 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
Steven Rostedt is a Software Engineer at Google.
Analyze Virtual Machine Overhead Compared to Bare Metal with Tracing
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 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 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.
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 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
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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Full agenda will be announced soon.
📺 The recording from my @P99CONF talk about continuous performance regression testing with #JfrUnit is up now!
— Gunnar Morling 🌍 (@gunnarmorling) October 8, 2021
Shout-out to @PeterCorless and crew for organizing this excellent event, one of the best virtual conferences I've seen so far 💯!https://t.co/7sMOtbAFpq
The terrific work by the @P99CONF crew has me wondering if virtual conferences might be the future: the platform fostered collaboration, the price was right (free!), and (best of all?) the videos are already out! Viz. my talk from this morning: https://t.co/qWKsqt43nq
— Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill) October 7, 2021
geez #p99conf is just so full of goodness. these are from @Hrexed, thinking about kubernetes like an onion, and what to consider tracking at each layer pic.twitter.com/2yaUWWBp0Q
— Rachel Stephens (@rstephensme) October 20, 2022
That was fun! Great questions from the #p99conf crowd https://t.co/bSRedaDN6x
— Liz Rice 🐝 💙💛 (@lizrice) October 19, 2022
Well the Cloud is not free and Software Engineering matters even for Enterprises 🙂 Also I am sorry for you If you missed #p99conf 😀. Don't miss it next year. #ScyllaDB pic.twitter.com/pqmE0KijlZ
— Bulent Coskun (@bulentcoskun) October 20, 2022
This is why I loved the @P99CONF format. Talks were pre-recorded, discord chat with the speaker during their talk and live Q/A after. Low stress for everyone - easy to get at missed talks.
— SMT Solvers (@SMT_Solvers) October 22, 2021
You know it's gonna be a good conference when you start slacking about it with co-workers immediately. #p99conf #scylladb - Measuring Misery was full of great content. pic.twitter.com/3yAHv2qsex
— Steven Cole (@steve_the_dm) October 19, 2022
The second day of #p99conf and #scylladb. One of the best tech conference nowadays. By engineers for engineers.
— Marcin Rusek (@marcin_rusek) October 20, 2022
I really enjoyed the talks (and hallway track!) yesterday at #p99conf, and I am looking forward to giving my own this morning on the primacy of toolmaking. The talks are prerecorded and registration is free -- so you can join me in heckling myself! https://t.co/MY15cF0S1I
— Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill) October 20, 2022
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.