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atomic primitives

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Low-level atomic operations used to update shared state safely with minimal synchronization overhead.

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Placed in Assess: 1 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 24%. Low accumulated evidence, so it defaults conservatively pending more signal.

Evidence (1)

  • 4InfoQ·9/3/2026research
    Scaling Low-Overhead Instrumentation

    Brian Martin describes the performance costs of metrics libraries and outlines techniques for keeping instrumentation lightweight at scale. He highlights atomic primitives, per-CPU sharding, lock-free histograms, and eBPF integration as ways to preserve observability without significantly affecting system performance.