Martin Thompson - Responding in a Timely Manner

Here is a video from ReactConf in London earlier this year, of a presentation by Martin Thompson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dfk3ucthN8

He talks about stuff like: Hard real time and Soft real time, distributes systems, Latency Distributions, queuing theory, Little's Law, Amdahl's law, Universal scalability law, Big O notation, hyperthreading, NUMA architectures, Garbage Collection, JVM Safepoints, Virtualization, benchmarking, profiling, non-blocking design, lock-free algorithms, etc.

As always, his presentations are full of details and insights. If you watch his talk and don't learn anything new, then lets just say that "you're way ahead of the curve"  :-O