Redpanda talk at Performance Summit

Redpanda talk at Performance Summit

A new storage engine built from the ground up for Kafka-API compatibility with Kernel bypass technologies for 10x lower tail latencies.

January 8, 2021
Last modified on
TL;DR Takeaways:
No items found.
Learn more at Redpanda University

On Dec 1st, I gave a talk at Performance Summit titled "Redpanda: A new storage engine built from the ground up for Kafka-API compatibility with Kernel bypass technologies for 10x lower tail latencies."

The talk covers how we built a new storage engine from scratch using a thread per core architecture for predictable tail latencies. We dive deep into the challenges of adapting a well known protocol (Kafka-API) on top of this new storage engine and the performance gains of optimizing for modern hardware.

Here for your viewing pleasure is the video of that talk:

Sign up for our Community Slack (here!) and engage with us on Twitter via @redpandadata or personally at @emaxerrno

‍

No items found.

Related articles

View all posts
Marc Millstone
,
,
&
Sep 28, 2026

A model-based AI kill switch: an exercise in performance art

Good intentions don’t work. Mechanisms do.

Read more
Text Link
Redpanda
,
,
&
Sep 22, 2026

8 engineering lessons on running AI agents in production

What two security operators learned from a decade of building at petabyte scale

Read more
Text Link
Trevor Blackford
,
Matt Schumpert
,
&
Aug 25, 2026

Push-button migration from Confluent to Redpanda

Redpanda Shadowing now carries topic data, schemas, offsets, and ACLs on a single link for a low-risk, no-data-loss cutover

Read more
Text Link
PANDA MAIL

Stay in the loop

Subscribe to our VIP (very important panda) mailing list to pounce on the latest blogs, surprise announcements, and community events!
Opt out anytime.