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About five years ago, Taxi had monolithic architecture. And everything was fine... until the monolith became huge and the troubles occurred. In his report Anton will tell you how to overcome these troubles, why you need your own framework userver, and what its structure is all about.

This is educational first speech. Let's see why ACID transaction properties are important and how they are implemented in distributed databases with sharding and replication. What about geo-distributed databases? Is it possible to achieve fault tolerance (high availability) and support strong consistency in such databases. What are trade offs for performance. discuss famous CAP theorem and what it means for data indexing and DB transactions.

The interview from C++ Russia and Hydra main studio.

Memory is something that C++ programmers know very well and think they have control over. But how much is known about memory on the GPU?

Suddenly, many familiar concepts from the C++ world break down, and creating single-source abstraction layers (such as SYCL) requires introducing a lot of CPU-weird concepts and terms. And all this affects performance. In the talk, Konstantin will take a look at memory as it is understood in C++ and as it is understood for graphics and show a lot of examples on SYCL. 

Asynchronous replication is a well-known technique to provide an independent replica of a database for different purposes including disaster recovery, geo-replication or scaling read workload. Traditionally, a log of changes from source replica is treated as an input for target replica database. If source and target replicas are distributed databases that handle high workload, putting all updates to a single log of changes could be nearly impossible. 

C++ developers don't like to pay for something they don't use. But there is a nuance, RTTI. As soon as you write dynamic_cast in the code, and you have to pay for runtime type information. We will look at how you can reduce the overhead by implementing your own dynamic_cast without RTTI.

The interview from C++ Russia and Hydra main studio.

IO-performance becomes increasingly important:

• we have more and more cores,
• PCIe Gen3 is finally turning into PCIe Gen5 and for now it stops being the bottleneck,
• NVMe drives and 200G NICs means the network is faster and fast.

Stacks that were OK in the past are not OK now. You can't saturate the HW IO capacity while doing context switches, wakeups in the kernel etc. So what before was an "option" is actually a MUST HAVE for most of the high performance applications.

In this talk, we cover how to design concurrent Binary Search Trees starting from the simplest ones. Hopefully, after this talk, the attendee will understand the standard tricks necessary for the implementation of Binary Search Trees. These tricks are important and can help to implement other more complex data structures.

Feature embedding (inlining) is an optimization that is based on the heuristics used to make the final decision about feature embedding. These heuristics are designed to make an efficient solution in the general case, but, as a consequence, can lead to far from efficient solutions in different from general cases. To solve this problem, LLVM has added support for using a machine learning model that answers the question, based on analysis of the compiled code, whether a function should be embedded into the call point in question. In this talk, we'll look at how this mechanism for determining whether a function should be embedded using machine learning works, how it can improve your program, and what its limitations are.

Sergey will talk about C/C++ compiler and application optimization for the open and free RISC-V architecture, the new standard changing the microprocessor world. You will learn about the history of the architecture, current state and plans in the international RISC-V community, architecture support in development tools, source code and compiler optimizations and transformations, performance hints and command  system extensions.

The interview from C++ Russia and Hydra main studio.

Developing the VK  Calls desktop application was a real challenge. The team set several goals at once: to provide native builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux, to achieve maximum performance and quality, while removing the limit on the number of participants in the call. And to do all this in the shortest possible time. To do this, we had to think in advance how to cut some of the sharp corners that inevitably arise during the development in  C++.

This talk will help you dive into the various algorithms that have been implemented in Java, .NET, and other runtimes. We will consider the tasks they solve and learn to understand problem areas. Also, solving certain tasks, we will create our own thread pool, after which we will achieve its maximum performance.

This talk describes a dynamic analysis tool that allows detecting strict aliasing rules violation in C++ programs. This topic covers implementation details of this tool that is implemented as a part of LLVM infrastructure. The talk requires basic knowledge of LLVM middle-end part and common ideas of sanitizers (e.g. AddressSanitizer)  implementation.

The interview from C++ Russia and Hydra main studio.

At high loads, code efficiency may be a much better investment than buying new resources. Let's look into the "under the hood" of the processor. We will see what the cache, the pipeline, the vector instructions are for, and also see what else is there. We will look at the differences between x86 and ARM. We will discuss what code should be able to get the most out of the processor and not wait for hundreds of cycles  for that byte to be loaded.

Vadim will describe implementation of S3 compatible storage service based on blob and NewSQL storages at Odnoklassniki. The talk will cover the architecture and data model, features and trade-offs, performance and optimization, some intricacies and surprises. The ideas and experience presented in the talk might be useful to designers and developers of distributed storage services, especially S3-compatible and/or Cassandra-based ones.

Now the sequence of optimization passes is chosen with the help of peer review by the compiler developers using a certain set of benchmarks. This is a very difficult task and a huge search space that ML can help with. Roman and Maria will consider approaches to solving this problem. They will make reviews of research papers and the tools and models used, describing their advantages and disadvantages. They will also show what practical results are achievable using machine learning to select the optimal sequence of optimization passes.

Concurrency in theory. Concurrency in practice. Concurrency in production. We discuss only real-world problems. Talking about upcoming innovations.

We take stock, remember the bright moments and talk about our plans. Come to the room or join the broadcast, so you don't miss anything!