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All Things P99

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

Keeping Latency Low and Throughput High with Application-level Priority Management

ScyllaDB CTO and co-founder Avi Kivity shows how high throughput and low latency can both be achieved in a single application by using application-level priority scheduling.

21 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.