Fedor Pikus has given a number of great talks on the subject at cppcon over the years some links, in no particular order: CppCon 2017: Fedor Pikus “C++ atomic

Fedor Pikus has given a number of great talks on the subject at cppcon over the years some links, in no particular order: CppCon 2017: Fedor Pikus “C++ atomics, from basic to advanced. What do they really do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQFzMfHIxng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQFzMfHIxng CppCon 2016: Fedor Pikus “The speed of concurrency (is lock-free faster?)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hJkWwHDDxs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hJkWwHDDxs CppCon 2015: Fedor Pikus PART 1 “Live Lock-Free or Deadlock (Practical Lock-free Programming)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVBvHbJsg5Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVBvHbJsg5Y CppCon 2015: Fedor Pikus PART 2 “Live Lock-Free or Deadlock (Practical Lock-free Programming)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1obZeHnAwz4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1obZeHnAwz4 CppCon 2017: Fedor Pikus “Read, Copy, Update, then what? RCU for non-kernel programmers” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxQ5K9lo034 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxQ5K9lo034 Tony Van Eerd has also given some talks on lock free queues, I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to search youtube :)