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Summaries are not the original full articles. ## What five P99 CONF talks reveal about database trade-offs DevFeed: [What five P99 CONF talks reveal about database trade-offs]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Doug Sillars Published: 2026-10-30T13:00:00Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [The New Stack]() Topics: [database-optimization](), [Database](), [database-scalability](), [scylladb](), [valkey]() Tags: [2026](), [amazon-elasticache](), [amazon-s3](), [applications](), [azure](), [data](), [database](), [databases](), [high-performance](), [latency](), [low-latency](), [p99-conf](), [performance](), [post](), [scylladb](), [sponsor-scylladb](), [sponsored](), [sponsored-post](), [storage](), [talks](), [trade](), [virtual]() ### AI overview The five talks show that database performance gains depend on workload and often shift costs elsewhere. Responsive's SlateDB uses immutable LSM files over object storage to reduce storage costs, while caching helps offset slower, priced object reads. ScyllaDB's optional Logstor targets read-intensive point lookups with one-I/O reads, trading more RAM and write work for speed; its reported benchmarks use different value sizes and are not direct comparisons. Valkey's lockless I/O queues raised throughput in Olson's tested workload, while atomic slot migration accelerated scaling; results are workload-specific. turbopuffer combines clustering and one-bit RaBitQ quantization to narrow vector searches, moving the bottleneck from storage bandwidth toward CPU, and relies on local SSD caches. TigerBeetle built a multi-cloud object-storage client to fit its single-core design; reported speedups apply to specified tests, and the custom client adds implementation work. Across the talks, each optimization introduces new costs, constraints, or bottlenecks. ### Source excerpt P99 CONF is a virtual conference on high-performance, low-latency applications. Its 2026 event ran October 21-22. Here, we cover five The post What five P99 CONF talks reveal about database trade-offs appeared first on The New Stack. ## P99 CONF 2026 Recap: A Tail of Two Days DevFeed: [P99 CONF 2026 Recap: A Tail of Two Days]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Cynthia Dunlop Published: 2026-10-27T15:53:35Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [ScyllaDB]() Topics: [performance-engineering](), [Distributed Systems & Parallel Computing](), [Deployment & Scaling](), [valkey](), [QUIC](), [NVMe](), [Cloud](), [High-Performance Computing]() Tags: [2026](), [agent](), [agents](), [ai](), [ai-assisted](), [ai-workloads](), [algorithm](), [arrow](), [asia-pacific](), [async](), [asynchronous](), [autonomous](), [autonomy](), [avi](), [aws](), [azul](), [bare-metal](), [community](), [conference](), [p99-conf](), [recap]() ### AI overview P99 CONF 2026 kept its focus on tail latency while adding a dedicated Europe/India/Asia-Pacific track and featuring AI in roughly a dozen of its 60-plus talks. The recap highlights practical agent work, including Netflix's autonomous agent tracing inefficiencies in live services and proposing fixes, and a Redis experiment giving an agent a multicore cluster, profiles, MCP access and a budget to run performance tests. Other talks covered async I/O, databases, vector search, observability, networking and sandboxes. One reported performance comparison: TigerBeetle's Zig object-storage client, built with custom DNS, TLS, HTTP, single-threading, zero-copy and io_uring, was said to be 10 times faster than the AWS and GCP SDKs. The conference's pre-recorded talks with live audience chat are available on demand. ### Source excerpt Our Aussie host's take on P99 CONF around the clock and (now) anytime on demand ## Inside the Database Internals Talks at P99 CONF 2026 DevFeed: [Inside the Database Internals Talks at P99 CONF 2026]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Cynthia Dunlop Published: 2026-10-12T13:51:27Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [ScyllaDB]() Topics: [scylladb](), [Distributed Systems & Parallel Computing](), [performance-engineering](), [elasticsearch]() Tags: [2026](), [benchmarking](), [c-plus-plus](), [cloud](), [cluster](), [coding](), [community](), [compaction](), [conf](), [database](), [database-performance](), [distributed](), [distributed-data](), [inside](), [p99-conf](), [performance](), [scylladb](), [systems](), [talks]() ### AI overview This article previews database internals talks at P99 CONF 2026, covering distributed databases, vector search, storage engines, query performance, concurrency, and low-latency systems. It highlights engineering approaches and performance tradeoffs from teams at ScyllaDB, TigerBeetle, DoorDash, AWS, and other organizations. ### Source excerpt Since database performance is so near and dear to ScyllaDB, we reached out to our friends across the community to ensure that a nice range of distributed data systems, approaches, and challenges would be represented at P99 CONF 2026. As you can see from our agenda, the response was overwhelming.