Introduction to the Disruptor

The document discusses the Disruptor, a data structure and work flow that allows for high-performance concurrent programming with no contention. The Disruptor uses a ring buffer to pass messages between threads very quickly in a parallel manner. Publishers can insert events into the ring buffer, while batch event processors can read the events in batches to process them in parallel threads. The Disruptor framework encourages modeling the problem domain and provides reliable ordering, parallelism, and high performance.