---
title: "Talks — Yao Yue"
description: "Public talks, conference presentations, podcasts, and interviews by Yao Yue."
url: "https://yaoyue.org/talks/"
---

# Talks

## Public talks
- [Datacenter Caching: A Round-Trip to the Ephemeral Store](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL68eC3HyFQ&t=202s) — South Bay Systems Meetup, 2026.
- [Why I Left Big-O in the Dustbin When I Left School](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeI4apdgupg) — Unlocked Conf, San Jose, 2026.
- [Beyond Line Charts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUu4s2vQne0) — YOW! Melbourne/Brisbane/Sydney, 2025.
- [Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter-Scale](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/performance-engineering-scale/) — QCon San Francisco, 2023.
- [Evolution: From Distributed Cache to Feature Store](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_W_DZ07hwo) — MoCon, Seattle, 2023.
- [Using Persistent Memory with Pelikan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leaIWRk_2bY) — Persistent Memory Summit, Santa Clara 2020.
- [Lies, Damned Lies & Timeouts Engineering](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngE8MoWMd3w) — YOW! Sydney, 2017.
- [In-Memory Caching: Curb Tail Latency with Pelikan](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/pelikan-distributed-caching/) — QCon San Francisco, 2016.
- [Cache à la Carte: A Framework for In-Memory Caching](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLRztKYvMLk) — Strange Loop, St. Louis, 2015.
- [Scaling Redis at Twitter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP9EKvWt0zo) — Meetup at Rackspace, San Francisco, 2014.

## Podcasts & interviews
- [Steve Waldman and Yao Yue Explore Complexity in Computing Systems and Economics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sabwTPxfVgU) — Complex Spice (Spice Labs), 2026.
- [Caching at Twitter](https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2023/01/12/caching-at-twitter-with-yao-yue/) — Software Engineering Daily, 2023.
- [Momento, the World's Fastest Cache](https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/ossstartuppodcast/episodes/E49-Momento--the-Worlds-Fastest-Cache-e1nf7ec) — Open Source Startup Podcast 2022.
- [Twitter's Yao Yue on Latency, Performance Monitoring, & Caching at Scale](https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/yao-yue-twitter-cache/) — InfoQ Podcast.
- [Yao Yue on Making Twitter's Pelikan Cache Fast And Reliable](https://www.infoq.com/interviews/yue-twitter-pelikan-cache/) — InfoQ Interview.
- [Cache-it #1: Applying Lessons from Caching to ML Feature Stores](https://www.gomomento.com/blog/cache-it-episode-1-applying-lessons-from-caching-to-ml-feature-stores-with-yao-yue/) — Momento.