Modern Systems Programming for the Next Decade

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The High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect To Hear about Rust

Abstract: Rust makes things faster but it slows down engineers, right? This was our team’s assumption when we decided to rewrite our code from Kotlin into Rust. But, we were wrong in completely unexpected ways.

Speaker image - Ruth Linehan

Ruth Linehan

Software Engineer @Momento, Previously APIs/Webhooks @GitHub and @Puppet

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When Every Bit Counts: How Valkey Rebuilt Its Hashtable for Modern Hardware

Ever wondered what happens when a bunch of performance-obsessed developers decide their blazing-fast database isn't quite blazing-fast enough?

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Instrumentation at Scale: Having Your Performance Cake and Eating It Too

In high-performance code, a single misplaced counter increment can cost more than the operation it’s measuring. That creates a paradox: instrument too much and you slow the system down; instrument too little and you miss the insights you need to continuously deliver.

Speaker image - Brian Martin

Brian Martin

Co-founder and Software Engineer @IOP Systems, Focused on High-Performance Software and Systems, Previously @Twitter

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Building High-Concurrency Systems for the Cloud

Details coming soon.