Mechanical Sympathy

Since leaving LMAX I have been neglecting my blog a bit.  This is not because I have not been doing anything interesting.  Quite the opposi...

Many applications record a series of events to file-based storage for later use.  This can be anything from logging and auditing, through ...

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...