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November 20, 2025: Component based or monolithic development for large C and C++ projects: Why not both?

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THURSDAY, November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Note: We are now meeting at the Bellevue City Hall meeting room 1E-120! Free public parking is available from 110th Ave NE, and marked “City Hall Parking”.
Additional free parking is located along the light rail line.
Bellevue City Hall is located adjacent to the Bellevue Transit Center for those wanting to take public transportation!

In Person:
Bellevue City Hall, Room 1E-120
450 110th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
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Free public parking is available from 110th Ave NE, and marked “City Hall Parking”. Additional free parking is located along the light rail line.

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Component based or monolithic development for large C and C++ projects: Why not both?

Abstract

Developers of large C and C++ projects have to choose between two main development paradigms: component based development and monolith based development, each one with its own advantages and disadvantages. In component based development, projects can be split in multiple repositories that allow to do decouple development and releasing, which suits well for many organizations that split the work in different teams with different development speeds. But this approach requires efficient dependency management, complicates working simultaneously in multiple components and it adds extra challenges to implement Continuous Integration at scale. On the other hand, in monolithic/monorepo base development, the build system tool manages the whole project efficiently, simplifying some development and integration flows. But it can be resource-intensive on the CI side and it also push the whole organization to move at the same speed, often with little or almost no versioning: the “live at head” paradigm It is said that by Conway’s law, organizations are forced in practice to choose between them. But what if modern C and C++ tooling allowed us to have the best of both worlds? This talk will present the novel Conan2 “Workspaces”, a monolithic view of multiple independent components that can be dynamically added and removed from the monolithic build, and how leveraging CMake FetchContent, such a single monolithic build can be implemented. Also, for the cases where not only CMake is involved, a quick overview of the orchestration of workspace incremental builds for heterogenous build systems and CI at scale will also be introduced. The talk will describe the basics, tools, design and architecture of the solutions, and it will also show full working demonstrations for them.

Speaker Bio

Diego Rodriguez-Losada‘s passions are robotics and SW engineering and development. He has developed many years in C and C++ in the Industrial, Robotics and AI fields. Diego was also a University (tenure track) professor and robotics researcher for 8 years, till 2012, when he quit academia to try to build a C/C++ dependency manager and co-founded a startup. Since then he mostly develops in Python. Diego is a conan.io C/C++ package manager co-creator and project lead, now working at JFrog as Conan Lead Architect and C/C++ Advocate.

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October 16, 2025: Agentic Debugging using Time Travel

Published: Wed 24 September 2025
By Lloyd Moore

In 2025.

Time and Location

THURSDAY, October 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Note: We are now meeting at the Bellevue City Hall meeting room 1E-120! Free public parking is available from 110th Ave NE, and marked “City Hall Parking”.

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Sept 18, 2025: My Crazy Plan to Implement an AArch64 Code Generator

Published: Sat 30 August 2025
By Lloyd Moore

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THURSDAY, Sept 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Note: We are now meeting at the Bellevue City Hall meeting room 1E-120! Free public parking is available from 110th Ave NE, and marked “City Hall Parking”.

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Aug 21, 2025: Lightning Talks!!!!

Published: Sun 27 July 2025
By Lloyd Moore

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Time and Location

THURSDAY, Aug 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Note: We are now meeting at the Bellevue City Hall meeting room 1E-120! Free public parking is available from 110th Ave NE, and marked “City Hall Parking”.

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July 17, 2025: Computer Programming Language Panel

Published: Sun 29 June 2025
By Lloyd Moore

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Time and Location

THURSDAY, July 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Special Time!!!

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In Person:

Microsoft Redmond Reactor | 3709 157th Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98052

Conf Room 20/1143 (12) Maple Reactor

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June 19, 2025: Free Static Analysis Tools

Published: Thu 29 May 2025
By Lloyd Moore

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Time and Location

THURSDAY, June 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

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In Person:

Microsoft Redmond Reactor | 3709 157th Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98052

Conf Room 20/1143 (12) Maple Reactor

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CANCELLED! : May 15, 2025: What’s New in Visual Studio for C++ Developers

Published: Thu 01 May 2025
By Lloyd Moore

In 2025.

Time and Location : CANCELLED!

Sorry for the short notice, however the speaker just informed me

an issue has come up where they won’t be able to do this presentation.

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What’s New in Visual Studio for C++ Developers

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Are you making the most of what Visual Studio …
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April 17, 2025: Back to Basics: The <=> Spaceship Operator

Published: Mon 31 March 2025
By Lloyd Moore

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Time and Location

THURSDAY, April 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

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Microsoft Redmond Reactor | 3709 157th Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98052

Conf Room 20/1143 (12) Maple Reactor

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Mar 20, 2025: Choosing The Right Language (for your project)

Published: Fri 28 February 2025
By Lloyd Moore

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THURSDAY, Mar 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

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Microsoft Redmond Reactor | 3709 157th Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98052

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Feb 20, 2025: MicroCode: Portable Programming for the BBC micro:bit

Published: Mon 10 February 2025
By Lloyd Moore

In 2025.

Time and Location

THURSDAY, Feb 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

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Microsoft Redmond Reactor | 3709 157th Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98052

Conf Room 20/1009 (16) Cedar Reactor

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Jan 16, 2025: The Black Art of Code Generation

Published: Thu 02 January 2025
By Lloyd Moore

In 2025.

Time and Location

THURSDAY, Jan 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

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In Person:

Microsoft Redmond Reactor | 3709 157th Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98052

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