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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.

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

Latency Book Excerpt: Cache Coherency and Cache Hit Ratio

Maximizing the hit ratio of your cache is the key to low-latency access.

Obsessed with Low Latency? Be Part of P99 CONF 2026

Obsessed with high performance and low latency engineering? Discuss your experiments, optimizations, ideas, and lessons learned with ~30K like-minded engineers… at P99 CONF 2026!

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