Master Class in Ukraine

On April 28-29 I'll be giving master class (in Russian) about development of high performance server applications in UNIX/Linux environment. The main topic of the class will be methods and technologies to build HTTP-, Instant Messaging-, database and other servers, which processes hundreds of thousands requests per second and gigabits of incoming traffic on commodity hardware. Mostly I'll be concentrating on following topics:

• the server architecture (threads, processes, queues and IO);
• concurrency (synchronization, context switches);
• fast data structures and properties of classic data structures from performance point of view;
• data alignment and optimization of CPU caches usage;
• lock-free data structures, atomic operations and memory barriers;
• memory allocators (when you need to develop your own allocator, types of memory allocators)
• internal server caches (data structures, replacement policies);
• zero-copy for disk and network IO and how to reduce copying in your code;
• CPU-binding for interrupts and threads/processes;
• working with huge files (mmap(), O_DIRECT, blocks allocation);
• how Linus works with files (page cache, disk synchronization, IO scheduling);
• profiling;
• and finally, when do you need to move to kernel.