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P99 CONF Speaker Spotlight: Daniel Lemire

Persistence apparently pays off. The P99 CONF community has been requesting Daniel Lemire for a few years now, and the stars finally aligned. In just about a month (!), Daniel and Francisco Geiman Thiesen will be presenting Billion-Query-Per-Second Lookup Tables in C++: Compile-Time Perfect Hashing. Note: P99 CONF is a technical conference on performance and …

P99 CONF Speaker Spotlight: Sam Rose

If you frequent Hacker News, you’ve probably seen Sam Rose’s work. He’s the mastermind behind “visual, interactive essays” that are educational, beautiful, and also just mesmerizing…

P99 CONF Speaker Spotlight: Peter Mbanugo

Let’s meet Peter Mbanugo,who will be talking about achieving massive, multi-core concurrency with pure state machines at P99 CONF 2026.

P99 CONF Speaker Spotlight: Tomás Senart

Get to know Tomás Senart , who will be talking about “Closed-Loop Performance Engineering” this year.

P99 CONF Speaker Spotlight: Madelyn Olson

Get to know Madelyn Olson, Principal Software Engineer at AWS — and Valkey co-creator/maintainer — in anticipation of her P99 CONF talk: “”The Vertical Scaling Wall, and How Valkey Gets Over It.”

Common Performance Pitfalls of Modern Storage I/O

Performance pitfalls when aiming for high-performance I/O on modern hardware and cloud platforms

Building an HTTP Server on a Thread-per-Core Framework, without Async/Await

How to build a production-grade HTTP server without async/await or coroutines

Why Queues Don’t Fix Overload (And What To Do Instead)

This post is about the physical laws of backpressure in software systems, latency death spirals, and why unbounded queues are a bug.

Latency Book Excerpt: Cache Replacement Strategies

Choosing the right cache replacement policy is critical for maintaining a high cache hit ratio and, therefore, low-latency access, but the decision can be workload-specific

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