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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 54m

P99 CONF 2025 is October 22-23, and it is packed with an agenda of new speakers and longtime favorites. We look back on some of the most talked-about sessions from 2024 with @penberg.org, @shraddhaag.dev, @lizrice.com, and @andypavlo.bsky.social. thenewstack.io/a-taste-of-p...

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A Taste of P99 CONF: Low Latency With eBPF, Rust and More

As we set the virtual stage for this year’s conference, we wanted to share some popular sessions from last year.

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 22h

How can you achieve 40x faster binary search? @curiouscoding.nl's #P99CONF talk will dive into everything that modern CPUs have to offer in order to gain 40x increased throughput over the Rust standard library implementation. Save your spot here > www.p99conf.io?latest_sfdc_...

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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 23h

As we set the virtual stage for this year’s conference, we wanted to share some popular sessions from last year.

By @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social, thanks to @scylladb.com

A Taste of P99 CONF: Low Latency With eBPF, Rust and More

As we set the virtual stage for this year’s conference, we wanted to share some popular sessions from last year.

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 6d

Neon is a serverless Postgres platform that was acquired by Databricks. Join @problame.bsky.social at #P99CONF to find out what lessons they learned reworking the IO stack of Pageserver, the storage service at the heart of the architecture. www.p99conf.io?latest_sfdc_...

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 7d

ScyllaDB Vector Search brings millisecond-latency vector retrieval to massive scale and makes #ScyllaDB optimal large-scale semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation workloads. We dive into the architectural design decisions and performance challenges here > www.scylladb.com/2025/10/08/b...

Building a Low-Latency Vector Search Engine for ScyllaDB

ScyllaDB Vector Search is now available. Learn about the design decisions, testing, and optimizations involved in achieving our performance goals.

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 8d

💡 Tuesday tech tip: Which strategies do Tripadvisor, Medium, and Sharechat use to ensure real-time inference with low latency at scale? Find out in our free webinar on October 8. Save your spot here > lp.scylladb.com/real-time-ml...

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Build Real-Time ML Apps with Python, Feast & NoSQL

Join this free interactive developer workshop where we’ll build a real-time ML app with Python, Feast, and ScyllaDB (NoSQL).

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 11d

TLA+ has found bugs in everything from cloud services and message queues to video games and SSD firmware. @hillelwayne.com‬ will give an overview of how it can be applied to find design bugs in low latency systems at our free and virtual #P99CONF. www.p99conf.io?latest_sfdc_...

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 14d

Alexey Milovidov has designed, developed, and operated data-intensive applications for 16+ years. At #P99CONF, you'll hear @clickhouse.com's experience integrating Rust and C++ code, as well as the unusual problems that they overcame. www.p99conf.io?latest_sfdc_...

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 14d

Sharding, caching, indexing, and vector search are fundamental differences between ScyllaDB and Apache Cassandra. On October 16, @felipemendes.dev and Guilherme da Silva Nogueira will look at how performance, features, and deployment options compare. lp.scylladb.com/cassandra-vs...

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Cassandra vs. ScyllaDB: Evolutionary Differences

Join this webinar for a side-by-side analysis of the key differences and what it means for teams working with high-performance databases.

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 19d

📖 Your Weekend Read: Increasing efficiency for storage-bound workloads and allowing deployment on mixed size clusters were big decisions that went into #ScyllaDB X Cloud. Tim Koopmans and @avikivity.bsky.social discuss them in our final Inside ScyllaDB X Cloud. www.scylladb.com/2025/09/24/s...

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 21d

I recorded my #p99conf talk yesterday, and my speaker swag box just arrived too! Super sweet and thoughtful gift. I already deployed stickers on my laptop :)

Huge thanks to the organizers @scylladb.com @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social for a smooth recording. Can't wait for the conference!

Top: a swag box from P99Conf. Bottom: my laptop stickers.

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 22d

Our #P99CONF speakers are experts in distributed databases, Rust, Wasm, AI/ML, eBPF, Linux kernel, observability, k8s & more. Check out the books written by @chiphuyen.bsky.social, @hillelwayne.com, @dominiktornow.bsky.social, @sarna.dev, and @penberg.org. www.p99conf.io/2025/09/23/b...

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Books by P99 CONF Speakers: AI Engineering, Latency, Distribtuted Systems & More

P99 CONF speakers have amassed a rather impressive list of publications, including quite a few books. This blog highlights 8 of them.

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 22d

We're looking forward to it. 😎

ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 23d

💪 Monday motivation: We are officially one month away from #P99CONF. eBPF has always been a popular topic, and this year is no exception. Don't miss @tanelpoder.com, @ddelnano.bsky.social, Jake Hillion, and @mostlynerdless.de on October 22-23: www.p99conf.io?latest_sfdc_...

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 25d

CNCF Pixie was engineered with reliability first, but there are times when this comes with memory costs. At #P99CONF, @ddelnano.bsky.social will share how to leverage pprof directly in their application and how to balance reliability and efficiency. www.p99conf.io?latest_sfdc_...

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 28d

We couldn't ask for a better group to challenge the status quo of database performance during our free & virtual Oct. 22-23 #P99CONF conference. Don't miss @andypavlo.bsky.social, Somtochi Onyekwere, @problame.bsky.social, @qianli.dev, and Nick Van Wiggeren. www.p99conf.io?latest_sfdc_...

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 28d

💡 Tuesday tech tip: Latency's importance is undisputed, but it's a tricky topic because dealing with latency problems often takes a lot of time. To make it easier, @penberg.org wrote an entire book that shares his hard-fought lessons learned. www.scylladb.com/2025/09/15/w...

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Why Cache Data? [Latency Book Excerpt]

Latency is a monstrous concern here at ScyllaDB. So we're pleased to bring you excerpts from Pekka Enberg's new book on Latency...and a masterclass with Pekka as well!

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · Sep 15

💪 Monday motivation: How did Medium replace a legacy relational model to keep its millions of readers engaged in real time? We'll share how they re-architected their feature store to power real-time recommendations at scale on September 18. lp.scylladb.com/medium-featu...

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · Sep 8

💪 Monday motivation: Whether you’re designing, implementing, or optimizing systems that are pushed to their limits, we’d love to hear about your impressive achievements and lessons learned at Monster Scale Summit 2026. Share your expertise with over 20K > www.scylladb.com/2025/09/04/m...

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Be Part of Something Big – Speak at Monster Scale Summit

Share your "extreme scale engineering" expertise with ~20K like-minded engineers

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · Sep 5

DBOS is a library-based engine designed for simplicity and efficiency. @qianli.dev will join us at #P99CONF to discuss its architectural trade-offs, challenges in failure recovery, and key optimizations for scalability and maintainability. Learn more > www.p99conf.io?latest_sfdc_...

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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · Sep 4

Human engineers make split-second diagnostic judgment calls. AI agents need to learn how to do this, too.

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Observability’s Overlooked Fourth Pillar: Key for Agentic AI

Human engineers make split-second diagnostic judgment calls. AI agents need to learn how to do this, too.

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · Sep 3

Medium's user personalization was originally implemented using an ML feature store and cross-entity relations. To support the constantly-increasing requests with low latency, they re-architected the feature store to power real-time recommendations at scale. lp.scylladb.com/medium-featu...

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · Sep 2

In addition to speakers from Microsoft, Netflix, AWS, & Meta, you don't want to miss these technical sessions on October 22-23 from @almog.xyz, Nikita Sivukhin, @andection.bsky.social, Sanyam Gupta, and Gayathri Narayana Yegna Narayanan. www.p99conf.io?latest_sfdc_...

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · Aug 29

📖 Your Weekend Read: To find out the customer benefits of the new instance types of Google's Z3, we evaluated the instances against our current N2-based configurations using our standard weekly regression testing suite. Check out the results > www.scylladb.com/2025/07/16/s...

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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · Aug 28

Designed for teams building performance critical applications, our September 25 Masterclass with @tur.so's @penberg.org and @felipemendes.dev shares proven strategies to eliminate bottlenecks across the stack. Don't miss this free event; sign up here > lp.scylladb.com/low-latency-...

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