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Rust vs. Zig – and C++ and Mojo – for Systems Programming

A (somewhat) friendly P99 CONF popup debate with Jarred Sumner (Bun.js), Pekka Enberg (Turso) and Glauber Costa (Turso) on ThePrimeagen

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Worldwide Local Latency: The ZeroFlucs Strategy

How data is replicated to support low latency for ZeroFlucs’ global usage patterns – without racking up unnecessary costs ZeroFlucs’ business – processing sports betting data – is rather latency sensitive. Content must be processed in near real-time, constantly, and in a region local to both the customer and the data. And there’s incredibly high …

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P99 CONF Speaker Spotlight: Amos Wenger

Get to know Amos Wenger, writer and video maker (aka @fasterthanlime) , in anticipation of their P99 CONF talk: ,”Rust + io_uring + ktls: How Fast Can We Make HTTP?”

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P99 CONF Speaker Spotlight: Tanel Poder

Get to know Tanel Poder, Performance Nerd at PoderC Consulting, in anticipation of his P99 CONF talk: “Using eBPF Off-CPU Sampling to See What Your Databases are Really Waiting For”

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Visualizing the Booting Sequence for Maestro, a Rust-Based Unix-like Kernel

How Luc Lenôtre used flamegraphs to optimize the CPU usage of Maestro kernel, a Unix-like operating system written in Rust.

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Rust: The Best Language for Data Infrastructure

Micah Wylde’s take on why Rust has become the best choice for writing high-performance systems like databases and stream processing engines. 

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P99 CONF Speaker Spotlight: Julia Kroll

Get to know Julia Kroll, Applied Engineer at Deepgram, in anticipation of her P99 CONF talk: “Minimizing Request Latency of Self-Hosted ML Models.”

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Switching From C++ to Rust

Nikita Lapkov started a new job in Rust after 4+ years writing C++. This post shares his experience and thoughts on the transition between the two languages.

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P99 CONF Speaker Spotlight: Cristian Velazquez

Get to know Cristian Velazquez, Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Uber, in anticipation of his P99 CONF talk: “Enhancing P99 Latency: Strategies for Doubling/Tripling Performance in Third-Party APIs.”

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