Mechanical Sympathy

After my last post on Java Lock Implementations , I got a lot of good feedback about my results and micro-benchmark design approach.  As a ...

We all use 3rd party libraries as a normal part of development.  Generally, we have no control over their internals.  The libraries provide...

In a previous article on Inter-Thread Latency I showed how it is possible to signal a state change between 2 threads with less than 50ns of...

How often have we all heard that “batching” will increase latency?  As someone with a passion for low-latency systems this surprises me.  In...

When trying to build a highly scalable system the single biggest limitation on scalability is having multiple writers contend for any item o...

Sequencing events between threads is a common operation for many multi-threaded algorithms.  These sequences could be used for assigning id...

I’m often asked, “What is the best way to learn about building high-performance systems”? There are many perfectly valid answers to this qu...