Concurrency Tools in the C++ Standard Library

A Hands-On Workshop

Available to book as a 1 day online workshop on the following dates

Friday 24th April 09:00 - 17:00 UTC

Suitable for:

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Asynchronous

Today, C++ software is increasingly asynchronous and parallel, a trend that is likely only to continue going forward. The C++ standard acknowledged threads and provided the first concurrency facilities with C++11. The set of primitives and lower-level building blocks was greatly extended in C++20 with many powerful abstractions.

During this training, we will learn the concurrency utilities in the C++ Standard Library. We will also explain how new C++20 features improve the "old" abstractions we got before. We will talk about threads, mutexes, deadlocks, work cancellation, semaphores, latches, barriers, and many more. We will also introduce a few higher-level abstractions (e.g., concurrent_queue and monitor design pattern).

What You Will Learn?

After completing this workshop, you will have a broad understanding of the various concurrency features in the C++ Standard Library. You will be able to pick a proper tool for a job easily. Thanks to the hands-on practical experience with the most important tools, you will learn how to think and type the code that solves specific issues. This will allow you to improve your production code base immediately after the training is over.

Workshop Structure

40% lecture
60% hands-on coding

Experience required

Basic experience with C++11 concurrency facilities in the C++ standard library.

Environment

A laptop with a web browser and access to the Internet
All hands-on exercises will be implemented using Compiler Explorer

Outline

Different kinds of concurrency
Parallelism vs Concurrency
Parallel algorithms
Synchronized buffered ostreams
std::thread
std::jthread and std::stop_token
Mutexes
Structuring code for protecting shared data
Locks
Deadlocks
Monitor design pattern
std::call_once and std::once_flag
std::condition_variable
concurrent_queue
Semaphores
std::latch
std::barrier
Futures
std::async
std::packaged_task
std::promise

Mateusz Pusz

C++ TrainerTrain IT

Mateusz is a software architect, principal engineer, and security champion with over 20 years of experience designing, writing, and maintaining C++ code for fun and for a living. His main areas of interest and expertise are Modern C++, code performance, low latency, safety, and maintainability.

As the founder of Train IT, Mateusz provides dedicated C++ training and consulting services to corporations worldwide, drawing on over 15 years of teaching experience. He contributes to the industry as a conference speaker and as an active voting member of the ISO C++ Committee (WG21), where he helps shape the language's future alongside the world's top experts.

Committed to software safety, Mateusz is also the founder and primary author of the mp-units project, an open-source library that strives to make the world safer by ensuring the correct handling of physical quantities in software.

Attend The Workshop Taster - 11th - 13th March

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The workshop taster is designed to provide you with a preview/overview of this workshop where you will also have an opportunity to ask questions. In addition, the workshop preview will be made available on-demand for you to watch at your own convenience.

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