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Performance Engineering from Kernel Analysis to AI: Adrian Cockcroft’s Take

Adrian Cockcroft discusses performance engineering, the limits of P99 metrics, and building AI-driven custom tools for response times

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Chip Huyen on How to Optimize LLM Inference

The author of AI Engineering shared her inference optimization strategies a year ago. Here’s how it all aged.

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Books by P99 CONF Speakers: AI to Sci Fi

P99 CONF has unintentionally turned into a nice gathering of book authors and book lovers. Here’s a look at featured books related to this year’s conference — touching on topics like AI engineering, distributed systems, database performance, latency, and even sci-fi/fantasy fiction! Get your free pass to P99 CONF (fully virtual) Once you register for …

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P99 CONF 26 Agenda: The Wait is Over

Finally, the P99 CONF 2026 agenda is set. We won’t bore you with all the behind-the-scenes juggling and jigsaw work involved. Please, just make sure you’re signed up, then start choosing your own adventure through the various tracks. Yes, you can catch up on any talks that you missed once they’re on demand. But the …

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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 …

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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…

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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.

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P99 CONF Speaker Spotlight: Tomás Senart

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

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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.”

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