October C++ Meetup

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Hi everyone,

We're excited to announce our next Meetup on Thursday 12th October from 6pm. We have two very special speakers to announce:

Talk 1

Dean Michael Berris is a Software Engineer at Google, working on performance debugging tools and occasionally also working on debugging the performance and efficiency of some internal systems. He is speaking at Pacific++ next month and will be covering a warm-up talk on LLVM XRay (http://llvm.org/docs/XRay.html).

Debugging high throughput, low-latency C/C++ systems in production is hard. At Google we developed XRay, a function call tracing system that allows Google engineers to get accurate function call traces with negligible overhead when off and moderate overhead when on, suitable for services deployed in production. XRay enables efficient function call entry/exit logging with high accuracy timestamps, and can be dynamically enabled and disabled. In this talk Dean will show how you can use XRay to debug your C/C++ applications using the LLVM/Clang toolchain, and how you can start integrating performance analysis and debugging into your workflow.

Talk 2

Alex Radchenko is a Software Developer at Optiver. He will be returning to to do a follow up talk on Benchmarking C++ Applications, Going Deeper.

Performance is one of the primary reasons developers use C++ today. This talk is a sequel to my previous talk “Benchmarking C++ Applications“ (which can be viewed in its entirety here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po7CAmzuwyk))

The first talk covered tracing, visualising, recognizing performance patterns and how to get an understanding of your application performance both in instrumented and production environments.

The second part is about drilling down and getting deep understanding of identified performance issues using profilers and micro benchmarking.

We're excited to be partnering with a new sponsor, ServiceNow (https://www.servicenow.com/), who are hosting the event at their swanky new offices on Level 48, 680 George Street, Sydney CBD.

RSVP now, we have 125 spots open.

C you there!