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