For our latest tech blogger interview, we’re featuring Preston Thorpe. writethatblog.substack.com/p/preston-th...

A nice recap of @clickhouse.com's P99 CONF keynote, by Joab Jackson of @thenewstack.io thenewstack.io/moving-from-...

Protobuf - use it faster, or don't use it at all? Couple of interesting talk from P99 CONF this year: * www.p99conf.io/session/8x-b... * www.p99conf.io/session/pars...

Three Flink-related talks at P99 CONF this year - here are the recordings and slides: * www.p99conf.io/session/apac... * www.p99conf.io/session/buil... * www.p99conf.io/session/rivi...

P99 CONF nails it in terms of both content, *and* UX for attending. Super-simple registration. Free registration. Videos available on-demand afterwards with no gating or games. Clear and usable website. These folk know how to do a developer conference. A+++ 🎥 Videos & slides: www.p99conf.io

Next book club idea: Writing for Developers Who is in? 👀

@sarna.dev's latest blog post picks for writethat.blog... I’m writing another book! // @ericlippert.com Zig's new async I/O // Andrew Kelley Corrosion // @sockpuppet.org, Peter Cai (@fly.io) How I reversed Amazon's Kindle web obfuscation because their app sucked // Cats with power tools

Oh look, a new book by @ericlippert.com! Should be a fabulous adventure indeed. www.manning.com/books/fabulo...

The Bug Hunt is probably our favorite “Writing for Developers” book chapter. It’s the first of the seven blog post pattern chapters that we shipped -- and we had a ton of fun developing it. You can read it here... writethatblog.substack.com/p/the-bug-hu...

If we get one more AI-generated Monster Scale Summit submission, I will cry. Humans, please -- apply to speak! This is P99 CONF's sister conference, and we're open to talks on extreme scale engineering and distributed system challenges. www.scylladb.com/monster-scal...

Rachel and Adrian Cockroft are up next! 🙌

In two hours (11:40 central time) I'll be speaking about designing distributed systems with TLA+ at #P99conf! It's a free virtual conference, so no excuses not to go :) www.p99conf.io

P99 CONF Day 2 is starting in less than an hour. Join us for monstrously impressive tech talks…and a bit of fun too. :-) www.p99conf.io

The 2nd day of @P99CONF starts in about an hour (11am EDT). I enjoyed yesterday's sessions! My eBPF "top for wall-clock time" talk starts in 4 hours (2:30pm EDT): www.p99conf.io/agenda/#thur... It's a free conference, see you soon! 🤓

Join me in 30 min. I'll be in the live chat

P99 Conf runs today and tomorrow! Historically #p99conf features technically rich talks, and this year's agenda seems to indicate 2025 will be more awesomeness! You should drop in for a session or two if you have time. www.p99conf.io/agenda/

#P99CONF is going live in just minutes! Here's a peek at the behind-the-scenes prep. If you haven't registered yet, hurry over to p99conf.io. It's free and virtual, so no excuses. 😅

And so begins the P99 CONF road trip. Next up: Lucky Llama coffee and the best trip tip sandwiches on the central coast.

P99 CONF is next week! Which talks are on your "can't miss" list?

New podcast: A fun chat on writing engineering blogs, with @glaubercosta.bsky.social and @sarna.dev

@sarna.dev's latest picks for writethat.blog 90%// @mitsuhiko.at Turning billions of strings into integers every second without collisions// @jaz.bsky.social Eliminating cold starts 2: shard and conquer// Harris Hancock @cloudflare.social Processes and threads// @benjdd.com, @planetscale.com

for the perf freaks out there, I'll be speaking at #p99conf next month on Protobuf optimization. it's a very cursed talk, and it'll be free and online! come ask me questions about cpu implementation details, perf profiling, and writing really fast parsers :3

Our #P99CONF speakers are experts in distributed databases, Rust, Wasm, AI/ML, eBPF, Linux kernel, observability, k8s & more. Check out the books written by @chiphuyen.bsky.social, @hillelwayne.com, @dominiktornow.bsky.social, @sarna.dev, and @penberg.org. www.p99conf.io/2025/09/23/b... #ScyllaDB

I recorded my #p99conf talk yesterday, and my speaker swag box just arrived too! Super sweet and thoughtful gift. I already deployed stickers on my laptop :) Huge thanks to the organizers @scylladb.com @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social for a smooth recording. Can't wait for the conference!

New interview: @aaronfrancis.com on technical blogging. It’s short, sharp, and spot on. No excuses, give it a read. 🙂 writethatblog.substack.com/p/aaron-fran...

Nice list of actionable blog writing takeaways here, courtesy of @twokul.bsky.social 👇

> At this point it's pretty much muscle memory to include samwho's newest post in the digest. The plan is working. 🥷

@sarna.dev's latest picks for writethat.blog … - Inside vLLM: anatomy of a high-throughput LLM inference system: Aleksa Gordić - Big O: @samwho.dev - Optimizing our way through Metroid: Will Wilson (@antithesis.com) - Without the futex, it's futile: h4x0r

Just noticed that p99conf registration is open, running at 22nd/23rd of October. No need to even ask questions about the agenda, just go ahead and register.

Who will be the first to submit a talk? 👀 Bring us your extreme scale engineering feats and your intriguing distributed database projects sessionize.com/monster-scal...

The Tale of Taming TigerBeetle's Tale - Performance wins via modern superscalar CPUs - Patterns CPUs love - Speed in production, not just on paper Tobias Ziegler, at P99CONF this October! @scylladb.com youtu.be/6RNJ1Z9GuBU

they've got me doing a session at P99Conf this year! gonna be doing my Protobuf parsing bit!

PSA: This new "Writing for Developers" blog has nothing to do with our book or @manning.com. It promises to help you "earn six figures from your words - all with proven AI prompts that automate 90% of the work." Eww.

Strongly endorse this advice from Thorsten to folks getting started writing. writethatblog.substack.com/p/thorsten-b...

Our latest tech blogger interview: @thorstenball.com shares his writing reflections and tips writethatblog.substack.com/p/thorsten-b...

By popular demand (ht: @paolobarbolini.bsky.social!): @scott.hanselman.com will be joining @ahl.bsky.social and me on the next Oxide and Friends to discuss the promises of tech -- both fulfilled and broken. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

@sarna.dev's picks for writethat.blog last month… - How Turso made connections to SQLite databases 575x faster: @glaubercosta.bsky.social (@tur.so) - Resizable structs in Zig: Tristan Pemble - How we rooted Copilot: Vaisha Bernard (Eye Security)

A new Writing for Developers podcast for your listening pleasure: techleadjournal.dev/episodes/221/ This one covers how blogging makes you a better engineer, using LLMs to review your writing, and why team writing culture matters.

A must-watch talk from @scott.hanselman.com. Scott and I are of the same vintage, and I am embarrassed (mortified!) by how revolting some of our generational peers have become. Technology still has a unique power to improve our lives, but wow, do we ever have work to do. youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg?...

Our latest tech blogger interview features “long-time performance geek” @tanelpoder.com. He just hit 18 years of blogging, and that deep experience really comes across in his thoughtful responses. writethatblog.substack.com/p/tanel-pode...

Piotr’s latest picks for http://writethat.blog… - How to store Go pointers from assembly: Francesco Mazzoli - Homomorphically encrypting CRDTs: Jake Lazaroff - jemalloc postmortem: Jason Evans - Fuzzer blind spots (meet Jepsen!): djb (@tigerbeetle.com )

Nice read from Pedro Tavares, a @eatonphil.bsky.social book club alumni ordep.dev/posts/writin...

Listening to 'Writing for Developers: Blogs That Get Read' and realizing they're not just talking about building your tech brand. They're talking about writing ideas so compelling they transcend our little technology cliques entirely and hit the top of Hacker News. github.com/scynthiadunl...

Much of what makes ScyllaDB so powerful is the architecture and performance optimizations. It's built on seastar.io Being shared-nothing and per-core sharded enables it to *scale out* to many servers and *scale up* to many cores on each server. Most datastores are only great at scaling up or out.

@scott.hanselman.com chats with @poppastring.com about technical blogging. Really, what else do we need to say? Just read/listen. writethatblog.substack.com/p/scott-hans...

This is a really nice conversation on the reality of technical blogging – from the perspective of an engineer (@sarna.dev) and co-founder (@glaubercosta.bsky.social) who were both forced into writing, but grew to love it.

Piotr’s latest picks for http://writethat.blog… - We rewrote large parts of our API in Go using AI - @avi.im, @tur.so - Reservoir sampling - @samwho.dev - End the obsession with servers - @technosophos.bsky.social, @fermyon.com

Got the cover design for the second edition of DDIA from the publisher. Now just need to finish the effin’ manuscript…

A peek into @glaubercosta.bsky.social's path from reluctant writer to writing-obsessed co-founder -- and his writing tips for others writethatblog.substack.com/p/glauber-co...

This was a really nice conversation on tech blogging, covering topics like: - Writing in English even if it’s not your native language - Using AI to review your writing - Recognizing/using blog post patterns like “the bug hunt” and “rewrote it in X” youtu.be/6DVg7HeA2oU