Achieving scalability with custom locks
from Co-Founder @ VeloxDB (Serbia)
About speaker
My name is Ivan Savu, and I’m a software engineer from Serbia. I’ve been coding for more than 20 years now, and I have always enjoyed building things. I started in high school, with video games, of course, and together with two of my buddies, we built a 3D FPS game.
About speakers company
VeloxDB is a company developing a high-performance database management system with zero compromise on correctness, designed for industries such as energy, ticketing, e-commerce, and finance.
Abstracts
The talk will cover following topics:
Memory architecture - CPU/Memory gap, memory hierarchy, multiprocessor cache, cache line contentions and its effects on scaling
Multiprocessor RW Lock - Fast reader/writer lock that scales linearly for read
0-bit spin lock - Lock that effectively uses no memory, allowing for cheap fine grained locking.
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