At the Performance Summit on December 1st, a talk titled "Redpanda: A new storage engine built from the ground up for Kafka-API compatibility with Kernel bypass technologies for 10x lower tail latencies" was presented, detailing the creation of a new storage engine optimized for modern hardware. The presentation focused on the implementation of a thread per core architecture to ensure predictable tail latencies, and explored the challenges and performance benefits associated with adapting the existing Kafka-API protocol to this new engine. The talk emphasized significant performance improvements achieved through these optimizations, and viewers are encouraged to join the community discussion on Slack and Twitter for further engagement.