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Vardan Grigoryan is a senior backend engineer and C++ developer with more than 9 years of experience. Vardan started his career as a C++ developer and then moved to the world of server-side backend development. While being involved in designing scalable backend architectures, he always tries to incorporate the use of C++ in critical sections that require the fastest execution time. Vardan loves tackling computer systems and program structures on a deeper level. He believes that true excellence in programming can be achieved by means of a detailed analysis of existing solutions and by designing complex systems.

Shunguang Wu is a senior professional staff at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and received his PhDs in theoretical physics and electrical engineering from Northwestern University (China) and Wright State University (USA), respectively. He published about 50 reviewed journal papers in the area of nonlinear dynamics, statistical signal processing and computer vision in his early career. His professional C++ experience started with teaching undergraduate courses in the late 1990s. Since then he has been designing and developing lots of R&D and end-user application software using C++ in world-class academic and industrial laboratories. These projects span both the Windows and Linux platforms.

Lou Mauget learned to program long ago at Michigan State University as a physics major, learning to use software in designing a cyclotron. Afterward, he worked for 34 years at IBM. He is currently consulting for Keyhole Software of Leawood, Kansas. Lou has coded in C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and newer languages, as each was conceived. Current interests include reactive functional programming, containers, Node.js, NoSQL, geospatial systems, mobile, and any new language or framework. He has coauthored three computer books. He has written two IBM DeveloperWorks XML tutorials and co-written several J2EE certification tests for IBM. He has been a reviewer for Packt Publishing and others.

Scott Hutchinson leads a team of C++ and F# developers in Oxnard, California. After a few years as a VB/VBA developer, he started developing with .NET Framework immediately after its launch in 2002. Since 2016, he has done most of his development in C++. He is a mentor for the F# track on Exercism, and teaches functional programming in F# to his team at work. His main professional interests are functional programming and machine learning. When he's not learning some new software development skill, he's usually hiking in the mountains of Southern California.

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This book will provide readers with details of C++ programs with regard to the C++17 and C++20 standards, and how they are compiled, linked, and executed. It will also cover how memory management works, what the best practices are as regards memory management problems, what classes are and how they are implemented, how a compiler optimizes code, and what the compiler's approach is in terms of supporting class inheritance, virtual functions, and templates.

The book will also tell readers how to apply memory management, object-oriented programming, concurrency, and design patterns to create world-ready production applications.

Readers will learn the inner details of efficient data structures and algorithms, and will understand how to measure and compare them to choose what fits best for a specific problem.