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P99 CONF 25 Agenda: The Wait is Over

See what’s in store for P99 CONF 2025…and be a part of what’s next

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When VerticalPodAutoscaler Goes Rogue: How an Autoscaler Took Down Our Cluster

Bug hunt: Inside an all-nighter spent chasing down a hidden Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) misconfiguration

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Rust Rewrites & Optimizations at P99 CONF 25

P99 CONF 2025 will be rather Rusty, yet again. Here’s a sneak peek into some of the Rust-focused talks we’ll be featuring.

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Go Performance Tuning Quick Start: Metrics, Profiling & Beyond

Continuous profiling in Go often surfaces slowdowns that never appear in benchmarks; this guide will help you get started.

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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.

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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.

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Rewriting Rust

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

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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

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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.

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