

Overheard at P99 CONF, Day Two: Low-Latency Expert Insights — and Memes!
Throughput and latency might be in constant tension, but learning and liveliness certainly are not. Case in point: P99 CONF. Over the past two days,
Throughput and latency might be in constant tension, but learning and liveliness certainly are not. Case in point: P99 CONF. Over the past two days,
Only a specialized subset of engineers obsess over long-tail latencies — P99, P999, or even P9999 percentiles — and are truly fascinated by things like:
Arm-based computers are continuing to make inroads across both personal computing as well as cloud server spaces. From the Arm-based MacBooks you can use during
JfrUnit is an extension to JUnit which allows you to assert JDK Flight Recorder events in your unit tests. This capability opens up a number of interesting use cases in the field of testing JVM-based applications.
System-wide continuous profiling has a habit of turning up performance murder mysteries: The data tells you that something is off in a rather unexpected manner, and an investigation then reveals surprising insights about the deployed systems.
I have spent almost the entire last decade in a fairly specialized product company, building high performance I/O systems. I had the opportunity to see storage technology evolve rapidly and decisively. Talking about storage and its developments felt like preaching to the choir.