Released as open source in November 2009, Go has become the foundation for critical infrastructure at every major cloud provider. Its creators look back on how Go got here and why it has stuck around.

Optimizing NUMA systems applications with Carrefour.

Designing locking primitives with performance in mind.

And the belief in such a device is harmful.

Looking at the design and benefits of X10.

Parallel computing has become increasingly important as chipmakers put more and more processor cores on individual chips.

The current generation of general-purpose multicore hardware must be fixed to support more application domains and to allow cost-effective parallel programming.

A discussion with Kiran Prasad, Kelly Norton, and Terry Coatta.

The increasing significance of intermediate representations in compilers.

Interfacing between languages is becoming more important

A close look at round-trip time measurements with the Transmission Control Protocol.

The challenges faced by competing HFT algorithms.

A special section on high-frequency trading and exchange technology.

Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat talk about scalability.

NUMA becomes more common because memory controllers get close to execution units on microprocessors.

Design requirements of nonblocking systems.

Watch out for these pitfalls that can prevent Web application scaling.

The leading open source system for processing big data continues to evolve, but new approaches with added features are on the rise.

A novel paradigm for programming reactive systems centered on naturally specified modular behavior.