Modern, High-Performance C++ Best Practices and Insights

Modern, High-Performance C++ Best Practices and Insights

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Race Conditions and Basic Protection with a Mutex

Learn about C++ race conditions and how to prevent them when updating shared data. Use std::mutex and the RAII-style std::lock_guard for thread safety.

Understanding Resource Management Challenges

Explore common resource leaks, dangling pointers, and why manual cleanup fails. RAII solves these problems elegantly.

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Your First Concurrent C++ Program - Parallel Sum with std::thread

Build a parallel sum function using std::thread and analyze performance. Discover the thread overhead and the optimal number of threads for massive speedup.

Basic Thread Management in C++

Master basic C++ thread management! Learn to launch threads with functions, functors, and lambdas, pass arguments, and choose between join() vs. detach().

Introduction to RAII: Principles And Benefits

Understanding Resource Acquisition Is Initialization in C++: tie resource lifetimes to objects for automatic cleanup, exception safety, and deterministic destruction.

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Why C++ Developers Are Still Crushing It in 2026 (And Getting Paid Handsomely)

Discover why C++ developers earn top salaries in 2026. Learn how C++ competes with Python, Rust & JavaScript for high-paying jobs in finance, gaming & tech.

How to Run Two Threads at Once in C++

Start your first concurrent program using std::thread and the safer C++20 std::jthread. Understand join() for clean execution and avoid common pitfalls.