Contents

This is a "work in progress". I created this 2013-Feb-13 and it should be done around 2013-July. How much the outline is filled out depends on the date between these two points.

Table of Contents

• The C10M problem
• Intro to scalability
• References
• Strategies
• Asynchronous programming
• Packet scaling
• Introduction to custom network stack
• Multi-core scaling
• Multi-core scaling: don't use multi-threaded techniques
• Ref: An introduction to lock-free programming
• Ref: SMP affinity and interrupt handling
• Memory scaling
• Attack scaling
• Protocol parsing
• Unlearning what colleges teach about parsers
• Scaling with languages
• Other topics
• Network processors
• Commodity x86 vs. network processors
• A retrospective on c10k
• Benchmarking
• Examples
• Misc