Overheard at P99 CONF, Day Two: Low-Latency Expert Insights — and Memes!

P99 CONF was a lively and insightful event focused on low-latency systems, featuring 35 sessions, engaging discussions, and interactive activities like meme contests. Highlights included Bryan Cantrill's keynote on the potential of Rust for hardware-facing systems and Steven Rostedt's deep dive into the ftrace tool for latency detection in the Linux kernel. The conference also covered topics such as observability, programming languages, new hardware architectures, unikernels, and streaming data architectures, with experts like Simon Ritter and Peter Portante sharing advanced strategies and innovations. Attendees participated in flash polls and were encouraged to contribute to the upcoming State of Distributed Systems report by ScyllaDB, with donations to code.org for completed surveys. The event fostered a sense of community, underscored by dynamic exchanges in the Speakers Lounge, and offered on-demand access to all sessions for those unable to attend live.