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What You Missed at P99 CONF: Sharpening our Axes to Battle Low-Latency Misery

P99 CONF – an open-source-community-focused conference for engineers who obsess over low latency – kicked off with Gil Tene’s take on “misery metrics” and wrapped with a look at P99 latency reduction as a Sisyphean task. In between, engineers spoke of their many hard-fought performance battles and lessons learned– across infrastructure engineering, programming languages, and …

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P99 CONF Day 2: Continuing the Performance Conversation

P99 CONF 2022 wrapup: links to on-demand videos & decks, opportunities to continue the P99 conversation, and a look at the lively P99 conversation on Twitter.

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P99 CONF Day 1: The Low-Latency Lowdown

Day 1 of P99 CONF kicked off with “misery metrics” and ended with a look at P99 latency reduction as a Sisyphean task. In between, engineers spoke of their many hard-fought performance battles and lessons learned. And thousands of engineers attending live had a great time digging into all this pain and suffering.

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9 Top P99 CONF 2021 Videos: Rust, Linux Tracing, Performance Tuning & More

With P99 CONF 2022 just about to kick off, let’s take a look back at top sessions from P99 CONF 2021.

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The Present and Future of Arm and AWS Graviton at Honeycomb

Honeycomb’s early look into the performance of Amazon’s C7g instances powered by newly released AWS Graviton3 Processors.

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P99 CONF Speakers Pique Your Interest in Low-Latency Tech Talks

P99 CONF (Oct 19 & 20) is now just days away. Hear what the speakers are most excited to share — and learn.

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Low-Latency Distributed Data Strategies at P99 CONF: SQL, NoSQL & Event Streaming

SQL and NoSQL, in-memory and persistent stores, transactional workloads and analytical data lakehouses — P99 CONF will be covering all this and more.

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Is a Rust Rewrite Really Worth It?

“Is a Rust rewrite really worth it” is not just a tongue twister. It’s a dilemma keeping engineers awake at night. Will the potential performance gains be worth all the effort of wrestling with a fast-growing language that is extremely well-loved, but not (yet) all that commonly used? Of course, there’s no simple answer to …

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The Observability and eBPF Buzz at P99 CONF 2022

A look at the observability and eBPF talks on the agenda for P99 CONF, featuring free access to the insights of luminaries like Liz Rice, Charity Majors, and Alex Hidalgo.

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