&gt; When performance really matters, you have to start thinking at the hardware level. Formula One driver Jackie Stewart is famous for once saying, “You don’t have to be an engineer to be be a racing driver, but you do have to have mechanical sympathy.”<p>If you are going to reference that quote, talk about ring buffers, and false sharing.  I think it behooves you to credit Martin Thompson or LMAX in some way.  That is a near verbatim quote from the Disruptor papers.