Registration is now open for CppCon 2025! The conference starts on September 15 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting videos of some of the top-rated talks from last year's conference. Here’s another CppCon talk video we hope you will enjoy – and why not register today for CppCon 2025!

Lightning Talk: From Macro to Micro in C++

by Conor Spilsbury

Summary of the talk:

Our continuous real-time monitoring led us to investigate an anomaly in the data about our system's performance. This led us to investigate and identify the culprit: a specific data structure used in our code and the way that structure was being initialized.