The Quest for Speed: Journey to 50% Better P99 Times with Go - David Vella

Join the LoveHolidays engineering team as we dive deep into our performance optimization journey that cut P99 response times in half. We'll walk through the real-world challenges of handling millions of holiday searches, and share the specific Go optimizations that transformed our platform's performance. You'll discover: How we identified our biggest performance bottlenecks through profiling Real monitoring strategies to catch performance regressions Common Go anti-patterns that were hurting our response times David Vella, Senior Software Developer at loveholidays, shares insights on reducing latency in his talk at GopherCon UK 2025, held on 14–15 August. #gopherconuk #golang #goprogramming #golanguage #performanceoptimization #lowlatency #scalability #softwaredevelopment #opensource