Talks

Conference Talks

• Why I Left Big-O in the Dustbin When I Left School PDF

  Unlocked Conf, San Jose, 2026

• Beyond Line Charts PDF html

  YOW! Melbourne/Brisbane/Sydney, 2025

• Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter-Scale PDF

  QCon San Francisco, 2023

• Evolution: From Distributed Cache to Feature Store PDF

  MoCon, Seattle, 2023

• Using Persistent Memory with Pelikan

  Persistent Memory Summit, Santa Clara 2020

• Lies, Damned Lies & Timeouts Engineering PDF

  YOW! Sydney, 2017

• In-Memory Caching: Curb Tail Latency with Pelikan

  QCon San Francisco, 2016

• Cache à la Carte: A Framework for In-Memory Caching PDF

  Strange Loop, St. Louis, 2015

• Scaling Redis at Twitter

  Meetup at Rackspace, San Francisco, 2014

Podcasts & Interviews

• Steve Waldman and Yao Yue Explore Complexity in Computing Systems and Economics

  Complex Spice (Spice Labs), 2026

• Caching at Twitter

  Software Engineering Daily, 2023

• Momento, the World's Fastest Cache

  Open Source Startup Podcast 2022

• Twitter's Yao Yue on Latency, Performance Monitoring, & Caching at Scale

  InfoQ Podcast

• Yao Yue on Making Twitter's Pelikan Cache Fast And Reliable

  InfoQ Interview

• Cache-it #1: Applying Lessons from Caching to ML Feature Stores

  Momento