P99 CONF 2025 is coming Oct 22-23! Call for speakers is open.

P99 Blog

Kerry Osborne: Your Brain Solving Performance Problems

Google’s Database Black Belt leader, Kerry Osborne, explores what goes on in your brain as you attempt to solve performance problems.

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Kerry Osborne on the Complexity of Solving Performance Problems

Google’s Database Black Belt leader Kerry Osborne explores the complexity of solving performance problems related to databases and IO systems.

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P99 CONF 24: The Wait is Over

An early look at P99 CONF 24, including 3 session sneak peeks: Amos Wenger, Andy Pavlo, and Michael Stonebraker.

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Bun, Tokio, Turso Creators on Rust vs Zig

What transpired when Glauber Costa (Turso co-founder), Jarred Sumner (developer of Bun.js and CEO of Oven) and Carl Lerche (developer of Tokio and major Rust contributor) got together for an impromptu “coding for speed” panel at P99 CONF

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Bryan Cantrill & Friends on Corporate Open Source Antipatterns at P99 CONF

When Bryan Cantrill & friends start talking about “open source antipatterns,” it gets spicy fast – and the intensity continues for a remarkable time.

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P99 CONF Day 2 Recap

Hear about the highlights of P99 CONF Day 2, with keynotes by Gwen Shapira, Bryan Cantrill, and Danny Kopping.

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P99 CONF Day 1 Recap

Hear about the highlights of P99 CONF Day 1, from the event host’s behind-the-scenes perspective.

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Low-Latency Distributed Data Strategies Featured at P99 CONF 23

If you share our obsession with high-performance low-latency data systems, here’s a rundown of sessions to consider joining at P99 CONF 2023.

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Using WebAssembly UDFs (and Triggers!) in a SQLite-Compatible Database

How WebAssembly addresses key issues with SQLite UDFs — so you can skip the low-level C API and use languages like Rust, Zig, or Go 

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