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All Things P99

The event for developers who care about P99 percentiles and high-performance, low-latency applications

Designing a Query Queue for ScyllaDB

Database queries vary widely—from milliseconds to hours. Optimizing concurrency is a delicate balance of CPU, memory, and stability. Bad design can lead to high latency or crashes. Join us to learn how we designed ScyllaDB’s query queue to handle these challenges. 

26 minutes
Avi Kivity

Avi Kivity, CTO and Co-Founder of ScyllaDB

Avi Kivity, CTO of ScyllaDB, is known mostly for starting the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) project, the hypervisor underlying many production clouds. He has worked for Qumranet and Red Hat as KVM maintainer until December 2012. Avi is now CTO of ScyllaDB, a company that seeks to bring the same kind of innovation to the public cloud space.