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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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15 Books by P99 CONF Speakers: Go, Wasm, eBPF, Databases & More

P99 CONF 2023 speakers have amassed a rather impressive list of publications, including quite a few books. This blog highlights 15 of them.

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20+ Low-Latency Engineering Case Studies: Netflix, Twitter, TikTok, Square, Uber & More

Learn how top tech companies are tackling their toughest performance challenges, directly from the engineers behind the optimizations.

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Visualizing SQL Plan Execution Time With FlameGraphs

Learn a new way for applying FlameGraphs for visualizing RDBMS SQL execution plan response time and resource usage at the plan operator level, while still maintaining the ability to see the big picture at a glance even with very large plans.

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If P99 Latency is BS, What’s the Alternative?

What’s the problem with P99s? And if they truly are BS, what should we look at instead? Hear from Gil Tene, Alex Hidalgo, and Charity Majors.

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