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P99 CONF: Sharpening our Axes to Battle Latency Misery

https://www.p99conf.io/ – an open-source-community-focused conference for engineers who obsess over low latency – kicked off with https://www.linkedin.com/in/giltene/ take on “misery metrics” and wrapped with a look at P99 latency reduction as a Sisyphean task. And thousands of engineers attending live had a great time digging into all this pain and misery.

Tene’s now legendary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP1aK4DLu-k talk from 2014 has prompted many engineers to rethink their approach to measuring P99 and similar latencies.

For eight years now https://www.scylladb.com/?utm_content=inline-mention led by https://www.linkedin.com/in/dor-laor/ has been battling P99 latency while building an “all-weather, all-terrain, high throughput, low latency database.”

But, if you get a self-centered task that doesn’t let others have their turn, P99 latency increases.