I wish "Mechanical Sympathy" was defined/explored more in computer science. Googling mechanical sympathy just leads me to a blog...although it's an extremely interesting blog and tied to the idea of mechanical sympathy. Also, LMax Disruptor looks really cool on the surface (can't wait to dive in). However, I haven't found too much literature that talks about its possible tradeoffs. Glad this story was posted.
i don't think that so-called 'Disruptor' is something more than a trivial implementation of 'pipeline parallelism'. i'm sure this keyword typed in google scholar would lead you to far more interesting things in real computer science