Track Overview
Bare Knuckle Performance
Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware
From this track
Applied Performance Theory
How does your system perform under load? What are the bottlenecks, and how does it fail at its limits? How do you stay ahead as your system evolves and its workload grows? Performance theory offers a rigorous and practical (-- yes!) approach to performance tuning and capacity planning. In this...
![](https://archive.qconlondon.com/sites/qcon_london/files/styles/240x240/public/kavya1692.jpg?itok=wRPJZ011)
Kavya Joshi
Software Engineer @Samsara
Cluster Consensus: When Aeron Met Raft
Consensus protocols enable distributed systems to agree a common view of shared state. This common view allows a cluster to continue service while a majority of its members are available. Raft was designed to be understandable. Raft succeeded in this goal and became popular. Aeron was designed...
![](https://archive.qconlondon.com/sites/qcon_london/files/styles/240x240/public/Martin%20Thompson.jpg?itok=yxNNSL8p)
Martin Thompson
High Performance & Low Latency Specialist
High Performance Actors
Typically, when looking at performance, organisations look at it in terms of resource utilisation. One way Akka actors stand out is by using resources very efficiently, while also maintaining the Reactive Principles such as resilience, i.e. the ability to react to failure in a non-catastrophic,...
![](https://archive.qconlondon.com/sites/qcon_london/files/styles/240x240/public/kikicarter2.jpg?itok=nZF4IkWn)
Kiki Carter
Building on Reactive Architectures @Lightbend
PerfView: The Ultimate .NET Performance Tool
PerfView is a free, standalone, small-impact tool produced by the CLR team that helps in performance investigations. It offers several unique features for understanding large performance reports, such as sampling, pattern folding, differencing, and grouping. You can use it for ETW analysis on...
![](https://archive.qconlondon.com/sites/qcon_london/files/styles/240x240/public/sashagoldshtein_600_2017_preview.png?itok=CkSRjZXy)
Sasha Goldshtein
CTO of Sela Group, a Microsoft MVP and Regional Director
Software Design for Persistent Memory Systems
Nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) will soon be widely available. Specific software techniques will be required in order to fully realise the potential that NVRAM offers. Byte addressable persistence offers both new opportunities and new challenges. This talk will cover both naive approaches to leveraging...
![](https://archive.qconlondon.com/sites/qcon_london/files/styles/240x240/public/biopic_0.png?itok=RJoTwrFy)
Howard Chu
Systems Level Developer & CTO @SymasCorp
Speakers from this track
![](https://archive.qconlondon.com/sites/qcon_london/files/styles/240x240/public/kavya1692.jpg?itok=wRPJZ011)
Kavya Joshi
Software Engineer @Samsara
Kavya Joshi writes code for a living at a start-up in San Francisco. She particularly enjoys architecting and building highly concurrent, highly scalable systems. In her free time, she reads non-fiction and climbs rocks. Before moving to San Francisco to be an Adult, Kavya was at MIT where she...
Read more![](https://archive.qconlondon.com/sites/qcon_london/files/styles/240x240/public/Martin%20Thompson.jpg?itok=yxNNSL8p)
Martin Thompson
High Performance & Low Latency Specialist
Martin is a Java Champion with over 2 decades of experience building complex and high-performance computing systems. He is most recently known for his work on Aeron and SBE. Previously at LMAX he was the co-founder and CTO when he created the Disruptor. Prior to LMAX Martin worked for Betfair,...
Read moreFind Martin Thompson at:
![](https://archive.qconlondon.com/sites/qcon_london/files/styles/240x240/public/kikicarter2.jpg?itok=nZF4IkWn)
Kiki Carter
Building on Reactive Architectures @Lightbend
Kiki Carter is a Principal Enterprise Architect at Lightbend, Inc. I have a passion for leading enterprise transformations, creating innovative solutions using emerging technologies to modernize heritage environments. I find a certain joy developing large scale, high performance...
Read moreFind Kiki Carter at:
![](https://archive.qconlondon.com/sites/qcon_london/files/styles/240x240/public/sashagoldshtein_600_2017_preview.png?itok=CkSRjZXy)
Sasha Goldshtein
CTO of Sela Group, a Microsoft MVP and Regional Director
Sasha Goldshtein is the CTO of Sela Group, a Microsoft MVP and Regional Director, Pluralsight and O'Reilly author, and international consultant and trainer. Sasha is the author of two books and multiple online courses, and a prolific blogger. He is also an active open source contributor to...
Read more![](https://archive.qconlondon.com/sites/qcon_london/files/styles/240x240/public/biopic_0.png?itok=RJoTwrFy)
Howard Chu
Systems Level Developer & CTO @SymasCorp
Howard Chu has been writing Free/Open Source software since the 1980s. His work has spanned a wide range of computing topics, including most of the GNU utilities (gcc, gdb, gmake, etc.), networking protocols and tools, kernel and filesystem drivers, and focused on maximizing the useful work from...
Read moreTrack Host
![](https://archive.qconlondon.com/sites/qcon_london/files/styles/240x240/public/Martin%20Thompson.jpg?itok=yxNNSL8p)
Martin Thompson
High Performance & Low Latency Specialist
Martin is a Java Champion with over 2 decades of experience building complex and high-performance computing systems. He is most recently known for his work on Aeron and SBE. Previously at LMAX he was the co-founder and CTO when he created the Disruptor. Prior to LMAX Martin worked for Betfair,...
Read more