Resources I like for C++, systems programming, and low-latency stuff.

Libraries

General Purpose

• Abseil - Google’s C++ library. Abseil Tips are worth reading.
• Folly - Facebook’s C++ library.
• Boost - Many standard library features came from here.

Concurrency & Lock-Free

• moodycamel::ConcurrentQueue - MPMC lock-free queue.
• moodycamel::ReaderWriterQueue - SPSC lock-free queue.
• Erik Rigtorp’s SPSCQueue - SPSC queue.
• Erik Rigtorp’s MPMCQueue - MPMC bounded queue.
• Folly ProducerConsumerQueue - Facebook’s SPSC queue.

Benchmarking & Profiling

• Google Benchmark - Microbenchmarking.
• Google Test - Testing framework.
• Tracy Profiler - Frame profiler.
• perf - Linux profiling. Brendan Gregg’s guide.

Serialization

• FlatBuffers - Zero-copy serialization.
• Cap’n Proto - Similar to FlatBuffers.
• Protocol Buffers - Widely used, has parsing overhead.

Tools

• Compiler Explorer (Godbolt) - See assembly output.
• Quick C++ Benchmark - Online benchmarking.
• C++ Insights - See template instantiation, implicit conversions.
• clang-format - Code formatting.
• clang-tidy - Static analysis.
• AddressSanitizer - Memory error detector.
• Valgrind - Memory debugging.
• GDB - Debugger.
• GEF - Enhanced GDB.

References

• cppreference.com
• C++ Core Guidelines

Blogs & Authors

• Agner Fog - x86 optimization manuals, instruction tables.
• Daniel Lemire - Performance, SIMD, parsing. Created simdjson.
• Erik Rigtorp - Stuff about Low-latency C++, he is very well known in trading community and he works at citsec.
• Fedor Pikus - CppCon talks on performance.
• Timur Doumler - Audio, low-latency.
• Jason Turner - C++ Weekly on YouTube.
• Herb Sutter - A very authoritative figure in C++ community, ISO C++ President.
• Scott Meyers - Effective C++ series author.
• Arthur O’Dwyer - STL internals, libc++ contributor.

Books & Papers

C++ Foundations

• Effective C++ - Scott Meyers
• More Effective C++ - Scott Meyers
• Effective Modern C++ - Scott Meyers
• C++ Templates: The Complete Guide - David Vandevoorde, Nicolai Josuttis, Douglas Gregor
• Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ - Bjarne Stroustrup
• Hands-On Design Patterns with C++ - Fedor Pikus
• C++ Memory Management - Patrice Roy

Low-Latency & Concurrency

• The Art of Writing Efficient Programs - Fedor Pikus
• C++ High Performance - Bjorn Andrist, Viktor Sehr
• C++ Concurrency in Action - Anthony Williams
• The Art of Multiprocessor Programming - Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit
• Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? - Paul McKenney

Systems

• Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective - Randal Bryant, David O’Hallaron
• Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach - John Hennessy, David Patterson
• Engineering a Compiler - Keith Cooper, Linda Torczon

Operating Systems

• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces - Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau (free)
• xv6: A Simple, Unix-like Teaching Operating System - Russ Cox, Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris

Networking

• TCP/IP Illustrated - W. Richard Stevens
• Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach - James Kurose, Keith Ross
• Beej’s Guide to Network Programming (free)

Papers

• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory - Ulrich Drepper

Talks

• CppCon
• C++Now
• Trading at light speed - David Gross
• When a Microsecond Is an Eternity - Carl Cook