P99 CONF 24 Agenda Revealed

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A first look at the all-star lineup for P99 CONF 24…and more big news

The wait is over – the P99 CONF agenda is here! Take a look at the amazing speakers and talks packed into two half days, then prepare to choose your own adventure through your favorites.

See the Agenda

A quick public service announcement for the uninitiated: P99 CONF is a free 2-day community event that’s intentionally virtual, highly interactive, and purely technical. It’s an immersion into all things performance. Distributed databases, Rust, C++, Go, Wasm, Zig, Linux kernel, observability, k8s & more– it’s all on the agenda.

This year you can look forward to first-hand engineering experiences from Disney, Shopify, LinkedIn, Google, Redis, Datadog, Uber, Lyft, Hulu, Meta, AWS, American Express, TigerBeetle, ScyllaDB, and too many others to list here.

Can’t Miss Keynotes

As you can see in the agenda, each day is anchored around multiple keynote blocks. Having access to all these brilliant minds at a single event is an unparalleled opportunity, and we hope you’ll be there on October 23rd and 24th to experience it, chat with them, and see what happens when they all interact.

  • Andy Pavlo: The Next Chapter in the Sordid Love/Hate Relationship Between DBs and OSes
  • Avi Kivity: Designing a Query Queue for ScyllaDB
  • Bryan Cantrill: DTrace at 21
  • Carl Lerche: Rust: A Productive Language for Writing Database Applications
  • Dor Laor: Overcoming Distributed Databases Scaling Challenges with Tablets
  • Gunnar Morling: 1BRC – Nerd Sniping the Java Community
  • Jose Fernandez: Noisy Neighbor Detection with eBPF at Netflix
  • Michael Stonebraker: You’re Doing It All Wrong

Tech Talks People Are Already Talking About

Beyond the keynotes, we’re featuring 60+ tech talks across three tracks, plus an Instant Access area. Here’s a sampling of some of the most talk-about ones:

  • Aleksei Kladov: Just In Time LSM Compaction
  • Amos Wenger: Rust + io_uring + ktls: How Fast Can We Make HTTP?
  • Chris Riccomini: Building a Cloud Native LSM on Object Storage.
  • Dominik Tornow: Distributed Async Await: A New Programming Model for the Cloud
  • JeanHeyd Meneide: Speed by the Numbers: Text Encoding in C and C++
  • Luc Lenôtre: Writing a Kernel in Rust
  • Pekka Enberg: Patterns of Low Latency
  • Richard Startin: Understanding Request Latency with Wallclock Profiling
  • Shraddha Agrawal: One Billion Row Challenge in Golang
  • Tanel Poder: Using eBPF Off-CPU Sampling to See What Your DBs Are Really Waiting For

The two-day event is free, fully virtual, and highly interactive. We hope you’ll be there, along with thousands of your peers, on October 23-24, 2024 to discover what latency-minded engineers have been working on and explore what’s next for performance.

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And Even More Big News: Monster Scale Summit

Since our community is obsessed with “performance at scale,” we’re launching a similar conference that is P99 CONF’s “at scale” counterpart. It’s called Monster Scale Summit, coming to you March 11-12, 2025.

Monster Scale Summit is a highly technical conference that connects the community of professionals designing, implementing, and optimizing performance-sensitive data-intensive applications. It focuses on exploring “monster scale” engineering challenges with respect to extreme levels of throughput, data, and global distribution. Like P99 CONF, the two-day event is free, intentionally virtual, and highly interactive.

Whether you’re designing, implementing, or optimizing systems that are pushed to their limits, we’d love to hear about your most impressive achievements and lessons learned. We welcome a broad spectrum of talks about tackling the challenges that arise in the most massive, demanding environments. The conference prioritizes technical talks sharing first-hand experiences. The standard tech talk sessions are short and sweet: just ~20 minutes.

Let us know if you’d like to be considered – here’s the call for speakers.

Become a Monster Scale Summit speaker

Learn more — and register [free]

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