Free Masterclass: Eliminate latency in distributed applications

Latency hides in every layer of a distributed system. In this masterclass you’ll learn proven strategies to eliminate bottlenecks across the stack — from the application layer down to the database.

Designed for teams building performance critical applications, this event offers practical methods for battling P99 (and higher) percentiles, and knowing when it's time to stop optimizing. Attendees will walk away with a holistic approach, including techniques that intersect many areas of software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and operating systems.

Draw from real world experience of Pekka Enberg (Turso CTO/Founder and author of Latency) and Felipe Cardeneti Mendes (Technical Director at ScyllaDB and co-author of Database Performance at Scale) and learn how to:

  • Spot, understand, and respond to latency, across your whole stack
  • Tackle often-overlooked causes of database latency
  • Evaluate when (and when not) to use caching for latency reduction

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Meet Your Instructors

Daniel Seybold
Pekka Enberg
Turso CTO/Founder and author of Latency

Turso

Felipe Cardeneti Mendes
Felipe Cardeneti Mendes
Technical Director

ScyllaDB

 

Look forward to...

Hands-on learning

Live Q&As, in-session chat, hands-on exercises... thought this was going to be only about watching people talk? Think again.

Free swag & prizes

Attend live and enter to win an exclusive swag pack and complete the quiz for a certificate to display on your LinkedIn profile!

Bonus content

You’ll have access to all recordings and slides after the event, so you can go back and re-watch the sessions you didn’t catch live.

Schedule Hightlights

September 25

  • Sept 25 08:00AM–08:30AM PST

    Lounges Open

     

  • Sept 25 08:30AM–08:35AM PST

    Welcome & Housekeeping

    Felipe Mendes
  • Sept 25 08:35AM–9:05AM PST

    Session 1: Patterns of low latency

    Speedrunning through important latency strategies buried deep in developer folklore.

    – Reducing data movement
    – Avoiding work
    – Avoiding waiting

    Felipe Mendes
  • Sept 25 9:05AM–9:35AM PST

    Session 2: Impacts on database latency

    Understanding critical factors that influence database latency.

    – Database architecture + topology
    – Underlying infrastructure
    – Workload patterns + data modeling

    Felipe Cardeneti Mendes
  • Sept 25 9:35AM–10:00AM PST

    Session 3: Just Cache it??

    Using real-world scenarios to discuss the “sweet spot” of caching.

    – When to cache
    – Caching caveats
    – Caching alternatives

    Pekka Enberg
    Felipe Mendes
  • Sept 25 10:05AM–10:20PM PST

    Open Q & A

    Ask your burning latency questions — the best ones win Latency + Database Performance at Scale books

    Pekka Enberg
    Felipe Mendes
  • Sept 25 10:20AM–10:25PM PST

    Wrap-up & Exam