Awesome Talks and Blogs

Awesome Talks and Blogs

A collection of videos and articles that I've found useful and interesting.

• Andrzej's C++ blog
• Concurrency Freaks
• Preshing on Programming
• Many But Finite
• Programming Talks
• Abseil C++ Tips
• Awesome Scalability
• A Distributed Systems Reading List

Link	Tags
Andrei Alexandrescu, Expect the Expected	C++, error handling
Brand & Nash, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: A Tale of Expectations and Exceptions	C++, error handling
Jon Cohen, Ensuring Exception Safety Through Testing	C++, testing
Herb Sutter, Leak-Freedom in C++... By Default	C++, memory management
Stephen Dewhurst, Modern C++ Interfaces	C++
Notes on VTable ABI layout	C++
C++ VTables	C++
Arthur O'Dwyer, "dynamic_cast From Scratch"	C++
Coroutine Theory	C++
Value Categories in C++ 17	C++
Greg Law, Debugging Linux C++	C++, debugging, Linux
Greg Law, Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB	C++, debugging, Linux
Simon Brand, How C++ Debuggers Work	C++, debugging, Linux
C++11 threads, affinity and hyperthreading	C++, hyper-threading
Numbers Everyone Should Know	performance
How to monitor the full range of CPU performance events	performance
TLS performance overhead and cost on GNU/Linux	C++, performance, Linux
The cost of dynamic (virtual calls) vs. static (CRTP) dispatch in C++	C++, performance
Chandler Carruth, Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures	C++, performance
Chandler Carruth, High Performance Code 201: Hybrid Data Structures	C++, performance
Chandler Carruth, Going Nowhere Faster	C++, performance
Carl Cook, Low Latency C++ for Fun and Profit	C++, performance
Carl Cook, The Speed Game: Automated Trading Systems in C++	C++, performance
Dynamic linker tricks: Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs	Linux, compiler
PLT and GOT - the key to code sharing and dynamic libraries	Linux, compiler
Matt Godbolt , The Bits Between the Bits: How We Get to main()	Linux, compiler
How The Kernel Manages Your Memory	Linux, kernel
Page Cache, the Affair Between Memory and Files	Linux, kernel
Python, Linkers, and Virtual Memory	Linux, kernel
Demystifying Unix Domain Sockets	Linux, kernel
Basics of Futexes	Linux, kernel
Memory Allocators 101 - Write a simple memory allocator	memory allocation
A Tale of Two Mallocs: On Android libc Allocators – Part 2 – jemalloc	memory allocation
Lock-Free Data Structures	atomics, lock-free
Lock-Free Data Structures With Hazard Pointers	atomics, lock-free
Pedro Ramalhete, How to make your data structures wait-free for reads	atomics, lock-free
Fedor Pikus, The speed of concurrency (is lock-free faster?)	atomics, lock-free
Lock-free stack: visibility issue when checking hazard pointers during pop()?	atomics, lock-free
The x86 Memory Model	atomics, memory order
Herb Sutter, Atomic Weapons	atomics, memory order
Atomics and Memory Ordering	atomics, memory order
Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial	atomics, memory order
Double-Checked Locking is Fixed In C++11	atomics, memory-order
GCC Atomic Sync	atomics, memory order
Linux Kernel Memory Barriers	atomics, memory order
Cache Coherency Primer	cache coherence
MESI	cache coherence
CPU Cache Flushing Fallacy	cache coherence
What every programmer should know about memory	cache, memory, performance
On lists, cache, algorithms, and microarchitecture	cache, memory, performance
Gallery of Processor Cache Effects	cache, memory, performance
Asynchronous I/O and event notification on linux	Linux, async IO
Tokio internals: Understanding Rust's asynchronous I/O framework from the bottom up	Rust, async IO
Joshua Liebow-Feeser, Move fast and don't break things: High-performance networking in Rust	Rust, networking
Path of a Packet in the Linux Kernel Stack	Linux, networking
Queueing in the Linux Network Stack	Linux, networking
How SKB Socket Accounting Works	Linux, networking
Scaling in the Linux Networking Stack	Linux, networking
How to receive a million packets per second	Linux, networking
How to achieve low latency with 10Gbps Ethernet	Linux, networking
Boost UDP Transaction Performance	Linux, networking
Linux TCP	Linux, networking
Strong Consistency Models	consistency, distributed systems
Consistency Models	consistency, distributed systems
Paxos Made Moderately Complex	concensus, distributed systems
How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python)	programming languages