The Disruptor is, essentially, a scheduling strategy builder for multithreaded code. It stands out in the world of concurrent programming because it offers both great execution speed and easily readable and debuggable code. Yes, it does have a weird name. According to the original whitepaper, it was coined “Disruptor” because
it had elements of similarity for dealing with graphs of dependencies to the concept of “Phasers” in Java 7…
Of course, it is much more than just a Star Trek joke. The pattern was developed by the LMAX exchange to build a competitive, low-latency trading platform that could handle millions of transactions per second. Luckily for us developers, they have opened the source code to the public. The reference implementation is written in Java, but there is a C# implementation as well.
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