Overheard at P99 CONF, Day One: Low-Latency Expert Insights

P99 CONF, organized by ScyllaDB, is a vendor-neutral conference designed for engineers passionate about low-latency, high-performance system design, covering advanced topics like io_uring, eBPF, and AF_XDP. The event features technical sessions and insights from experts across various fields, including programming languages like Rust and Go, distributed storage systems, and new hardware architectures. Day 1 highlighted sessions such as Brian Martin's exploration of rewriting Twitter's caching system in Rust for enhanced efficiency and Marc Richards' tips on extreme HTTP performance tuning. Avi Kivity discussed balancing high throughput and low latency with application-level priority management. Parallel track sessions covered a range of specialized subjects, from observability and programming languages to distributed databases and streaming data architectures, providing a comprehensive look into cutting-edge techniques for optimizing system performance.