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P99 CONF 24 Agenda Revealed

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

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P99 CONF Speaker Spotlight: Tanel Poder

Get to know Tanel Poder, Performance Nerd at PoderC Consulting, in anticipation of his P99 CONF talk: “Using eBPF Off-CPU Sampling to See What Your Databases are Really Waiting For”

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Visualizing the Booting Sequence for Maestro, a Rust-Based Unix-like Kernel

How Luc Lenôtre used flamegraphs to optimize the CPU usage of Maestro kernel, a Unix-like operating system written in Rust.

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Rust: The Best Language for Data Infrastructure

Micah Wylde’s take on why Rust has become the best choice for writing high-performance systems like databases and stream processing engines. 

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P99 CONF Speaker Spotlight: Julia Kroll

Get to know Julia Kroll, Applied Engineer at Deepgram, in anticipation of her P99 CONF talk: “Minimizing Request Latency of Self-Hosted ML Models.”

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Switching From C++ to Rust

Nikita Lapkov started a new job in Rust after 4+ years writing C++. This post shares his experience and thoughts on the transition between the two languages.

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P99 CONF Speaker Spotlight: Cristian Velazquez

Get to know Cristian Velazquez, Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Uber, in anticipation of his P99 CONF talk: “Enhancing P99 Latency: Strategies for Doubling/Tripling Performance in Third-Party APIs.”

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The Cloud Storage Triad: Latency, Cost, Durability

Chris Riccomini presents a theorem for primary persistence on object stores.

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A Tale of Database Performance Pains

Database performance is serious business, but why not have a little fun exploring its challenges and complexities? Here’s a rather fanciful story from Database Performance at Scale, a free Open Access book.

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