Rust India Conference 2026

In modern streaming systems, we tend to measure success in throughput and scale. Systems are faster than ever, but in real-world environments they still fail in ways that are hard to predict.

In large-scale real-time systems, even a few milliseconds can impact the user experience. From building and operating distributed systems at Apple, Comcast, and Dialpad, we’ve seen that even when individual components are fast, overall system behavior is often dominated by unpredictable delays, especially in the transport and messaging layers.

Systems like Kafka have made huge progress in improving throughput. But higher throughput does not necessarily mean better performance in practice. Tail latency and lack of predictability continue to be real problems, often caused by inefficient data movement and limited control over critical paths.

In practice, many streaming systems are still optimized for the wrong thing. Instead of focusing only on speed, we should be designing for consistency and predictability, especially for real-time and AI-driven workloads.

We’ll briefly touch on how Rust makes it easier to control performance at a low level, and how these ideas are being applied in modern real-time data infrastructure, including platforms like LaserData Cloud.

This talk is for engineers and leaders who care about building distributed systems where every millisecond actually matters.

Speaker Bio:
Kranti Parisa is the Founder of LaserData, building next-generation real-time data infrastructure for AI-era workloads. He previously spent several years at Apple, leading large-scale search and personalization products and services, and later served as SVP of Engineering at Dialpad, where he led high-scale real-time communication platforms.

He is a serial entrepreneur and an active contributor to open-source projects under the Apache Software Foundation. Kranti has extensive experience building distributed systems at internet scale, with a focus on performance, latency, and reliability. He is also a member of the Apache Iggy PPMC, a high-performance message streaming engine written in Rust.