Virtual Event | OCTOBER 21 + 22, 2026
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I'm Chip Huyen, a writer and computer scientist. I'm building infrastructure or real-time ML. I also teach Machine Learning Systems Design at Stanford. Previously, I was with Snorkel AI, NVIDIA, Netflix, Primer, Baomoi.com (acquired by VNG). I helped launch Coc Coc - Vietnam’s second most popular web browser with 20+ million monthly active users. In my free time, I travel and write. After high school, I went to Brunei for a 3-day vacation which turned into a 3-year trip through Asia, Africa, and South America. During my trip, I worked as a Bollywood extra, a casino hostess, and a street performer. I’m the author of four bestselling Vietnamese books. I’m working on an English book on machine learning interviews.
Thorsten Ball is the Co-Founder of Amp.
Dylan leads the feature flag team lead at PostHog. He loves typed languages, skiing, jazz piano, producing music, and powerlifting.
Janani Narayanan is a Senior Staff Engineer at Uber.
Gunnar Morling is an open-source software engineer in the Java and data streaming space, currently working as a Technologist at Confluent. Previously, he helped to build a realtime stream processing platform based on Apache Flink and led the Debezium project, a distributed platform for change data capture. He is a Java Champion and has founded multiple open source projects such as Hardwood, kcctl, JfrUnit, and MapStruct. Gunnar is an avid blogger (morling.dev) and has spoken at various conferences like QCon, Java One, and Devoxx. He lives in Hamburg, Germany.
Founder & CTO of LaserData, Apache Iggy Committer, PPMC, and a full-time open-source contributor. In a previous chapter, I spent over a decade in the C#/.NET ecosystem building a wide range of applications, including high-performance systems.
Dominik Tornow is CEO and founder of Resonate HQ, Inc. Dominik focuses on correctness, reliability, and scalability of distributed systems. He is the author of Thinking in Distributed Systems.
Dor Laor is the CEO of ScyllaDB. Previously, Dor was part of the founding team of the KVM hypervisor under Qumranet that was acquired by Red Hat. At Red Hat Dor was managing the KVM and Xen development for several years. Dor holds an MSc from the Technion and a Phd in snowboarding.
Adrien is an engineer at turbopuffer focused primarily on full-text search. Prior to joining turbopuffer, he worked as a distinguished engineer at Elastic. He as an Apache Lucene committer, with over 15 years of experience building text search systems.
Gwen is a co-founder and CPO of Nile (thenile.dev). She has 25 years of experience working with code and customers to build reliable and scalable data architectures - most recently as the head of Cloud Native Kafka engineering org at Confluent. Gwen is a committer to Apache Kafka, author of “Kafka - the Definitive Guide” and "Hadoop Application Architectures". You can find her speaking at tech conferences or talking data at the SaaS Developer Community.
Georg Kreuzmayr is a Software Engineer at TigerBeetle, where he works on database internals and low-level systems infrastructure. His work spans high-performance networking, deterministic simulation testing, and low-level protocol implementation. He is based in Munich / Germany.
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.
Catherine Jue is the Co-Founder of KERNEL.
Den Odell is an Author at Manning and Staff Engineer at Canva
Sam Rose is a Developer Educator at ngrok creating deep, visual, and interactive content aimed at helping developers truly understand the topics they're reading about.
Cristian Velazquez is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer on the Maps Production Engineering team at Uber. He works on multiple efficiency initiatives across multiple organizations. He leads the GC tuning efforts across the company.
Tanel Poder is a long-time computer performance geek, working on various complex systems like (Oracle) database clusters, modern Big Data & cloud technologies and anything running on Linux/Unix. He has built and fixed enterprise data systems all around the world, this has also resulted in building a few small-but-very-fun tech companies around better tools and methods. He has two patents in the data virtualization space and has realized that this is enough. In addition to his R&D, he occasionally delivers consulting, advisory and training to companies and talks about performance & troubleshooting both at public conferences and his video channels available at his website.
Hello, I'm Almog: co-founder of Responsive! I've spent a decade working on industry's hardest problems in distributed systems, starting with search infrastructure at LinkedIn before moving on to realtime data processing. I enjoy sharing insights I've stumbled on throughout my career about the internals of data systems and the future of data infrastructure.
Jarred Sumner is the Founder & CEO of Bun.
Gil Tene is CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems. He has been involved with virtual machine technologies for the past 20 years and has been building Java technology-based products since 1995. Gil pioneered Azul’s Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector (C4), Java Virtualization, Elastic Memory, and various managed runtime and systems stack technologies that combine to deliver the industry’s most scalable and robust Java platforms. Gil also represents Azul Systems on the JCP (Java Community Process) executive committee.
Andy Pavlo is an Associate Professor of Databaseology in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His (unnatural) infatuation with database systems has inadvertently caused him to incur several distinctions, such as VLDB Early Career Award (2021), NSF CAREER (2019), Sloan Fellowship (2018), and the ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Best Dissertation Award (2014). He was also the CEO & co-founder of the OtterTune database tuning start-up (2020).
Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, now part of Cisco, who are the original creators of the Cilium project. She was chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of Container Security, published by O'Reilly. She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, competing in virtual races on Zwift, and making music under the pseudonym Insider Nine.
Ashutosh Agrawal is a Staff Software Engineer for Google Gemini.
Carl Lerche is a Principal Engineer at AWS. He is best known for his open source Rust libraries, primarily Tokio, the asynchronous I/O runtime for Rust.
Dr. Stonebraker has been a pioneer of database research and technology for more than forty years. He was the main architect of the INGRES relational DBMS, and the object- relational DBMS, POSTGRES. These prototypes were developed at the University of California at Berkeley where Stonebraker was a Professor of Computer Science for twenty five years. More recently at M.I.T. he was a co-architect of the Aurora/Borealis stream processing engine, the C-Store column-oriented DBMS, the H-Store transaction processing engine, the SciDB array DBMS, and the Data Tamer data curation system. Presently he serves as Chief Technology Officer of DBOS, Inc., Tamr, Inc., and Paradigm4. Professor Stonebraker was awarded the ACM System Software Award in 1992 for his work on INGRES. Additionally, he was awarded the first annual SIGMOD Innovation award in 1994, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997. He was awarded the IEEE John Von Neumann award in 2005 and the 2014 Turing Award, and is presently an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at M.I.T, where he is co-director of the Intel Science and Technology Center focused on big data.
Manya is a second-year computer science PhD student at MIT. She is interested in designing extensible and productive languages (and tools!) for heterogeneous systems.
Armin Ronacher is a Principal Architect at Sentry and is the creator of the Flask web framework for Python. He has worked on various Open Source and commercial projects, largely on the backend for the last 10+ years. Prior to joining Sentry, he was a Consultant and a Systems Architect on the Fireline project at Fireteam, leading many Open Source projects like the Flask microframework for Python, the Jinja2 template engine and many more. He has been credited on Batman Arkham Asylum, Halo The Master Chief Collection, and other games. His field of expertise is in large scale backend infrastructure, networking and online services and API design.
Charity is the co-founder and CTO of honeycomb.io, which is bringing observability tooling into the era of distributed systems. She is the co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering (O'Reilly), and has worked at companies like Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab. She loves free speech, free software and single malt scotch.
Wednesday, October 21
8:00am – 1:00pm Pacific Time
16:00 – 20:00 UTC
Thursday, October 22
8:00am – 1:00pm Pacific Time
16:00 – 20:00 UTC
Follow us on Twitter @p99conf for the latest updates.
Full agenda will be announced soon.
P99 CONF nails it in terms of both content, *and* UX for attending. Super-simple & free registration. Videos available on-demand afterwards with no gating or games. Clear and usable website. These folk know how to do a developer conference. A+++https://t.co/CNvMmGdfK7
— Robin Moffatt 🍻🏃🥓 (@rmoff) November 10, 2025
Scylla folks are killing it as usual with the P99 Conf lineup.
— Phil Eaton (@eatonphil) May 19, 2024
Pekka Enberg, Liz Rice, Michael Stonebraker, Andy Pavlo, Bryan Cantrill, Tanel Poder, Gunnar Morling, Ashley Williams, and more.
What a gang. Free and virtual.https://t.co/A9ogGr3woj
Great #p99conf so far -- a masterclass on all the kinds of latency in services, and then a really interesting talk from someone building their own toy operating system, and the latency challenges they solved in it.
— Adam Chalmers (@adamchalmers.com) October 23, 2024 at 10:00 AM
The Scylla team’s conferences—P99 CONF and Monster Scale Summit— are top-tier. The hardest part is choosing a track when every session looks great. And the swag is in its own league 🙂
— Ivan Burmistrov (@isburmistrov.bsky.social) March 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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😍 eBee has flown onto the sticker pack for #p99conf ! And look how nicely the ScyllaDB monster is gazing up at her 😀
— Liz Rice 💛💙🐝 (@lizrice.com) October 1, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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Excited for Day 2 @P99CONF with this cute little guest 🥰 #P99CONF pic.twitter.com/FiyO8ffqpN
— Aadhav Vignesh (@carrotburnt) October 24, 2024
The banger opening presentation at P99 Conf by Professor Andy Pavlo
— v (@avi.im) October 26, 2024 at 7:34 PM
watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD-0dw4gUhw
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P99 conf videos are available here p99conf.io.staging.tenrec.com If you enjoy things like low-latency, high-performance or distributed systems I am sure you'll find something you like!
— Miguel Ángel Pastor Olivar (@migue.bsky.social) October 25, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Never have I wanted a swag pack so much #P99CONF #ScyllaDB
— Peter Bowyer (@peterbowyer) October 24, 2024
My @plotlygraphs T-shirt is 10yrs old and must go... pic.twitter.com/Qq3U3wT6OO
Andy Pavlo's talk at #P99CONF was mind blowing. Beautiful synergy between eBPF and databases explained with some great performance benchmark numbers. Looking forward to reading more on this from the CMU report - https://t.co/Ulc877HtKy pic.twitter.com/f6PDJhIi98
— Debasish (দেবাশিস্) Ghosh 🇮🇳 (@debasishg) October 26, 2024
An awesome talk by Cristian Velazquez (Uber) on enhancing P99 latency for third-party APIs (yup!), full of adventures and very interesting solutions! Definitely going to apply some of them for our use cases!#P99CONF #ScyllaDB pic.twitter.com/30qTwdJ4wl
— aksh1618 (@aksh1618) October 24, 2024
congrats to #p99conf for being the best conference at absolutely dominating my timeline with interesting-as-shit talks for two days solid
— knewter 🇺🇲/acc (@knewter) October 26, 2024
#P99CONF has been dope. always great listening to brilliant engineers..
— Julian Dumebi Duru (@durutheguru) October 23, 2024
There’s no other event like this — a conference for engineers by engineers, where we’ll share novel approaches for solving complex problems efficiently and at speed. Vendor and tool agnostic, this conference will be for a highly technical audience only. Your boss’s boss is not invited.
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