What Every Programmer Should Know

A curated list of articles, blog posts and videos

CPU

• What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024

Memory

• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory Ulrich Drepper, Nov 21, 2007

Floating-Point Arithmetic

• What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

Performance

• Latency Numbers Everyone Should Know - Jeff Dean
  
  
• Performance Hints, Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Dec 16, 2025
• Brendan Gregg's Linux Performance Observability Tools
  
  

Concurrency

• Concurrency is not Parallelism, Rob Pike, co-designer of the Go programming language
• Concurrency is not Parallelism: Slides

SIMD for Code Optimization

• Optimizing software in C++: An optimization guide for Windows, Linux and Mac platforms, Prof. Agner Fog, Technical University of Denmark
  

Linux Kernel

• The Path of a Packet Through the Linux Kernel, Alexander Stephan, Lars Wüstrich