Explore the intricacies of low latency C++ programming in this comprehensive conference talk from CppNow 2023. Delve into the distinctions between low latency and high performance, examining use cases across finance, audio processing, and video game industries. Discover common challenges in low latency systems and learn C++ techniques to overcome them. Investigate topics such as CPU throttling, data types, algorithms, allocators, mutexes, concurrent code, ring buffers, atomic operations, SpinLocks, and luxury data structures. Gain insights into deferred reclamation, RCU, and weight-free implementations. Understand the tradeoffs and practical applications of various low latency programming techniques, guided by expert developer Timur Doumler.