As part of my job I have to deal with quite heavy I/O loads. Multiple times I’ve jumped into a fighting ring facing challenges that demand me to perform thousands of I/O operations in the most efficient way possible. And I haven’t always won. This has directed my attention to more powerful weapons, weapons like io_uring. io_uring is a new asynchronous I/O API in the Linux kernel which offers efficiency and scalability never seen before. With coroutines accepted into the c++20 standard and...
