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High Performance on a Low Budget: Gwen Shapira’s Tips for Startups

How even a scrappy early-stage startup can deliver outstanding performance.

Hello eBPF: Concurrency Testing using Custom Linux Schedulers

How anyone can write a basic Linux scheduler and use it, for example, to fuzz for concurrency bugs or optimize for specific workloads.

Rewriting Rust

Seph Gentle’s take on where Rust (still) falls short, and how he would improve it.

Migrating from Postgres to ScyllaDB, with 349X Faster Query Processing

How Coralogix cut processing times from 30 seconds to 86 milliseconds with a PostgreSQL to ScyllaDB migration

Why Databases Should Bypass the Linux Page Cache

A look at why ScyllaDB completely bypasses the Linux cache during reads and uses its own efficient row-based integrated internal cache instead.

Low-Latency & Performance-Obsessed Engineers: Share Your Insights At P99 CONF

Obsessed with high performance and low latency engineering? Discuss your experiments, optimizations, ideas, and lessons learned with ~30K like-minded engineers… at P99 CONF 2025!

Time-series and Analytical Databases Walk into a Bar

The journey toward making QuestDB a much faster analytical database, featuring specialized data structures, SIMD-based code, scalable aggregation algorithms, and parallel execution pipelines.