P99 Blog

P99 CONF Speaker Spotlight: Cristian Velazquez

Get to know Cristian Velazquez, Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Uber, in anticipation of his P99 CONF talk: “Enhancing P99 Latency: Strategies for Doubling/Tripling Performance in Third-Party APIs.”

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The Cloud Storage Triad: Latency, Cost, Durability

Chris Riccomini presents a theorem for primary persistence on object stores.

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A Tale of Database Performance Pains

Database performance is serious business, but why not have a little fun exploring its challenges and complexities? Here’s a rather fanciful story from Database Performance at Scale, a free Open Access book.

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Investigating Crazy Rust Compile Times

Adam Chalmers investigates the reasons behind slow compile times for the KittyCAD Rust API client and shares how he cut the release compile-times from 33 minutes to 1.5 minutes.

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NoSQL, NoMQ: Palo Alto Networks’ New Event Streaming Paradigm

How Palo Alto Networks eliminated the MQ layer for a project that correlates events in near real time, using an existing database instead of Kafka.

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Intel CPU Die Topology

Jason Rahman looks at a pair of Intel CPUs and observes a few key details on their on-die interconnect topology and impact on cross-core communication patterns.

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Kerry Osborne: 3 Real-World Approaches for Solving Complex Performance Problems

Google’s D.atabase Black Belt leader, Kerry Osborne, explores the pros and cons of three approaches to solving complex performance problems

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Kerry Osborne: Your Brain Solving Performance Problems

Google’s Database Black Belt leader, Kerry Osborne, explores what goes on in your brain as you attempt to solve performance problems.

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Kerry Osborne on the Complexity of Solving Performance Problems

Google’s Database Black Belt leader Kerry Osborne explores the complexity of solving performance problems related to databases and IO systems.

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