P99 CONF 2025 is coming Oct 22-23! Call for speakers is open.

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All Things P99

The event for developers who care about P99 percentiles and high-performance, low-latency applications

Queues, Hockey Sticks and Performance

Queues: both a blessing and a curse in computer science. They help predict performance but also signal overload. This talk explores their role in diagnosis, capacity planning, and development using physics concepts and the “hockey-stick” curve. Master queue intuition for better programs. 

15 minutes

David Collier-Brown, Staff Engineer

Dave is a performance engineer and capacity planner, once upon a time for the (late, lamented) Sun Microsystems. He's working as an individual contributor these days, from his home base in Toronto.