Processor Design Courses and Certifications

GOTO Conferences

What Every Programmer Should Know About How CPUs Work

Dive into the inner workings of modern CPUs with Matt Godbolt as he explains performance features, branch prediction, and memory systems that impact your code, plus tools to diagnose issues when performance suffers.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Meta

Netty Best Practices for Optimal Performance

Explore Netty best practices with Norman Maurer, covering optimizations, JDK NIO limitations, and performance enhancements for this popular JVM networking framework.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NDC Conferences

The Genius of the RISC-V Microprocessor

Explore RISC-V's innovative architecture, its impact on the industry, and how it compares to x86 and ARM processors. Learn about compressed instruction sets, macro-fusion, and micro-operations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

GDC

Performance and Memory Postmortem for Middle-earth - Shadow of War

Explore engineering strategies for achieving 30fps and optimizing memory in Middle-earth: Shadow of War, covering threading, rendering, and memory management techniques.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

CppCon

The Hidden Performance Price of C++ Virtual Functions

Explore the performance impact of C++ virtual functions, understand their underlying mechanisms, and learn optimization techniques to enhance program speed.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Robert Feranec

How Does a CPU Work and How to Create Your Own Processor

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Explore CPU functionality and design your own processor in this comprehensive tutorial. Learn about registers, program counters, instruction execution, logic gates, and FPGA implementation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

CMU Database Group

Query Execution and Processing Part 1 - Lecture 4

Explore advanced query execution techniques, including vectorized processing and just-in-time compilation, to optimize database system performance.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

CMU Database Group

Query Compilation and JIT Code Generation in Advanced Databases - Lecture 9

Explore query compilation and JIT code generation in advanced database systems, focusing on code specialization, holistic compilation, and performance optimization techniques.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

CMU Database Group

Query Execution and Processing Models - Lecture 6

Explore advanced database query execution and processing models, focusing on efficiency, pipelining, and parallelism in modern database systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

CMU Database Group

Parallel Query Execution - Lecture 13

Explore parallel query execution techniques in database systems, enhancing performance and scalability for efficient data processing and retrieval.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

CppCon

Why 99% of C++ Microbenchmarks Lie - and How to Write the 1% that Matter!

Uncover why most C++ microbenchmarks mislead and master hardware performance counters, processor tracing, and microarchitecture analysis to create reliable benchmarks that translate to production.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Hussein Nasser

HTTP - Live Stream

Comprehensive exploration of HTTP evolution, from version 1.0 to 2.0, covering key concepts, improvements, and challenges in web communication protocols.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Hackaday

System Architecture

Explore system architecture fundamentals, from performance optimization to memory types, with insights on CPU design, I/O, and graphics in this comprehensive talk by Bil Herd.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Black Hat

Bypassing KPTI Using the Speculative Behavior of the SWAPGS Instruction

Unveiling a new speculative execution attack exploiting SWAPGS instruction, bypassing existing CPU and kernel protections. Explores side-channel vulnerabilities and their implications for system security.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Strange Loop Conference

Mill vs. Spectre - Performance and Security

Explore CPU architecture vulnerabilities, focusing on Meltdown and Spectre attacks. Learn about the Mill architecture's unique approach to performance and security without hardware speculation.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk