Cristian Velazquez, Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Uber, will be presenting “Enhancing P99 Latency: Strategies for Doubling/Tripling Performance in Third-Party APIs” at P99 CONF 24.
Note: P99 CONF is a technical conference on performance and low-latency engineering. It’s virtual, free, and highly interactive. This year’s agenda spans Rust, Zig, Go, C++, compute/infrastructure, Linux, Kubernetes, databases, and more.
We hope you’ll join us live October 23-24 to hear the talk and chat with Cristian. In the meantime, let’s get to know a little about him!
How do you answer the dreaded “tell us about yourself” question?
It depends on how you want me to address this question, but the most generic answer would be:
I am a Mexican Software Engineer, married to my college sweetheart (she is also a software engineer) and we have a beautiful 2-year-old son. I’m lucky enough to say that I enjoy 100% the work that I do and after 10 years of doing this I still do. A few other things that I enjoy are taking walks with my family, playing soccer, and playing video games.
What’s the most interesting project that you’re working on right now – or hoping to start soon?
Not sure that I can share much, but we are looking at improving the library that we use for metrics.
What will you be talking about at P99 CONF?
The talk title is “Enhancing P99 Latency: Strategies for Doubling/Tripling Performance in Third-Party APIs.” To give a quick glimpse of it: It is a collection of steps/changes we did to improve the latency to external providers (that anyone can replicate).
What other P99 CONF talks are you most looking forward to – and why?
I don’t think there’s a single talk. I really enjoy anything that has to do with eBPF, Rust and low latency.
What do you like most about P99 CONF?
As a speaker? Logistics. The organizers make it so simple to participate and the quality of the content produced is more than what I originally expected.
As an attendee? At Uber, I do a lot of efficiency work, so I always like to see what others are doing. It inspires me and it also gives me ideas.
Any performance-related resource recommendations for the P99 CONF community?
I really recommend that you follow the Uber engineering blog: https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/engineering/!
