C++ and Systems Design Group of Armenia

We are a community of C++ Software Developers, Architects, and Systems Designers based in the warm country of Armenia in the South Caucasus. We have great mountains, tasty wine, fantastic food, and a thriving tech scene, with R&D offices of software and hardware design giants and many startups, including unicorns!

The capital city has the highest density of tech. Yerevan hosts offices of Nvidia, AMD, Siemens, Synopsys, Yandex, EPAM, and DataArt, as well as ServiceTitan, Miro, PicsArt, Krisp, and Unum. So that is where we meet!

We meet once every few months. Most meetings have been recorded and are available on this YouTube playlist. We are always searching for new speakers. We prefer:

• 45m long presentations, but are flexible to include alternative formats.
• Talks are generally in English, but we also allow Russian and Armenian.
• Topics related to C/C++ or Systems Design.

If you have something matching those criteria, please complete this Google Form. And, of course, join the Telegram group for communication.

Events

10. October 26, 2024 @ AUA

1. 10x Faster IO with Linux Kernel Bypass. Ash Vardanian, Unum. Slides, YouTube
2. Linux on GPU. Dmitry Duka, Nvidia. Slides, YouTube

9. November 1, 2023 @ AUA

1. What C++23 Brings to us? Dmitry Duka, Nvidia. Slides
2. Basic Optimization Techniques. Ivan Zinkevich, Nvidia. Slides

8. September 20, 2023 @ AUA

1. Why Are C++ Builds Slow, and What Can You Do About It? Dmitry Kozhevnikov, JetBrains.
2. The 3 Worst Things You Can Do to Your Hardware. Fedor Pikus, Siemens.

Eventbrite. Facebook.

7. December 17, 2022 @ ISTC

1. OS Hypervisors and High-Speed Networking. Rostislav Povelikin, Mellanox.
2. Distributed Systems at OK.ru. Oleg Anastasjev, OK.

Eventbrite. Facebook.

6. October 21, 2022 @ AUA

1. Performance: You Don't Know Jack. Fedor Pikus, Siemens. Slides
2. Разработка встраиваемых баз данных: NUMA & Thread-pools. Alexander Borgardt, DuckStax.

Eventbrite. YouTube.

5. June 29, 2022 @ ISTC

1. Bindings 101: CPython, cGo, JNI. Ash Vardanian, Unum. Slides
2. Go and Systems Programming. Alexey Veselovsky, Align Technology. Slides
3. Async Programming with C++ Coroutines. Dmitry Duka, Nvidia. Slides

Eventbrite. YouTube.

4. March 3, 2022 @ TUMO

1. Quick-Bench & Basics of C++ Profiling. Hayk Grigoryan, Siemens. Slides
2. Unsafe Math, GCC Attributes, and Nifty Tricks for Google Benchmark. Ash Vardanian, Unum. Article

Eventbrite.

3. January 27, 2022 @ ISTC

1. Learning GPGPU Through Parallel Reductions: From OpenCL, Thrust & CUB To Raw CUDA Kernels & SyCL. Ash Vardanian, Unum. Slides

Eventbrite.

2. December 13, 2021 @ ISTC

1. Binary Safety, Code Fuzzing, Static Analyses. Vag Vardanyan, PicsArt. Slides
2. Evolution: C++11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26? Ash Vardanian, Unum. Slides

Eventbrite. YouTube.

1. December 5, 2020 @ FAST

1. SIMD for Substring Matching using x86 SSE, AVX2, AVX-512 and Arm Neon. Ash Vardanian, Unum. Slides

Eventbrite. YouTube.