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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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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!

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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.

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P99 CONF 24 Recap: Heckling on the Shoulders of Giants

Get the host’s perspective on P99 CONF 24 – from a rundown of key sessions to a peek at what happens behind the scenes.

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