Monthly Archives: October 2020

CPPCON2020 Plenary Session Review: Performance Matters

Posted on October 15, 2020 by

This was my favorite session. I must confess that I’ve seen it three times, and had the time to go slowly over the topic discussed: performance. Emery Berger needs no introduction. Just check his LinkedIn profile, but just in case, … Continue reading →

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CPPCON2020 Session Review: Back to Basics: Concurrency

Posted on October 13, 2020 by

Arthur O’Dwyer’s session is a lap around the concurrency facilities present in C++, starting with C++11. He starts the session with a gentle introduction to concurrency and parallelism pre-C++11 and walks you towards the memory model present in Modern C++, … Continue reading →

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CPPCON2020 Session Review: Test Driven C++

Posted on October 12, 2020 by

I was interested in this talk by Phil Nash to see his approach with C++. TDD is an approach that, as it states it is test driven (and Phil clarifies that it is different from test first). Saying that, there … Continue reading →

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CPPCON2020 Session Review: Retiring the Singleton Pattern: Concrete suggestions for what to use instead

Posted on October 6, 2020 by

The Singleton design pattern has been discussed ad naseaum over the years. Peter Muldoon starts with the motivation for this talk: an occurrence of Singleton in the workplace, oh my! The premise of the talk, is not whether to keep … Continue reading →

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