about the author

Pekka Enberg has been working on systems involving low latency for nearly two decades. Previously, he worked on the Linux kernel as a maintainer of the dynamic memory allocator subsystem. Pekka also worked as an early employee at ScyllaDB, building a low-latency, high-throughput Apache Cassandra-­compatible distributed database. Today, Pekka works at Turso, creating the next evolution of SQLite. You can learn more about Pekka at https://penberg.org.