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P99 CONF 2022 Agenda Revealed

Editor’s Note: P99 CONF 2022 is now a wrap! You can (re)watch all videos and access the decks now. ACCESS ALL THE VIDEOS AND DECKS NOW P99 CONF is shaping up to be an incredible event. Already thousands of people have registered to attend. Best of all, because it’s all online and free, there’s no …

Uninitialized Memory: Unsafe Rust is Too Hard

P99CONF speaker Armin Ronacher shares his insights on why writing unsafe Rust is a complex and user UN-friendly experience – harder than C or C++.

Liz Rice: Following the ‘Superpower’ Promise of eBPF

P99CONF speaker Liz Rice shares her perspective on why eBPF is a transformational technology for networking, security and observability in cloud native.

Async Rust in Practice: Performance, Pitfalls, Profiling

A play-by-play account of how ScyllaDB engineers used flamegraphs to diagnose and resolve performance issues in our Tokio framework based Rust driver.

P99 CONF 2022 Registration Now Open, Speakers Announced

Editor’s Note: P99 CONF 2022 is now a wrap! You can (re)watch all videos and access the decks now. ACCESS ALL THE VIDEOS AND DECKS NOW P99 CONF is the event for engineers who care about P99 percentiles and high-performance, low-latency applications. This free, virtual conference was created by engineers for engineers. P99 CONF brings …

Exploring Phantom Jams in your Data Flow

Like traffic, software can experience slowdowns for no good reason. How can you design around this problem? Learn how to implement a producer-dispatcher-consumer model.

Direct I/O Writes: The Path to Storage Wealth

When writing to files on modern storage, you can write for cheap at first, but you are bound to pay the real cost — with interest — later. Direct I/O can set you on the path to building real storage wealth.

P99 CONF 2022 Call for Speakers

Editor’s Note: P99 CONF 2022 is now a wrap! You can (re)watch all videos and access the decks now. ACCESS ALL THE VIDEOS AND DECKS NOW P99 CONF was born out of the need for developers to create and maintain low-latency, high-performance, highly available applications that can readily, reliably scale to meet their ever-growing data …

Kafka-Compatible Fast Distributed Transactions

Transactions bring exactly-once semantics (EOS) to streaming processing. They help developers avoid the anomalies of at-most-once or at-least-once processing (lost or duplicated events, respectively) and focus only on the essential logic.

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