Building Consensus on a Set of Rules for Our Massive C++ Codebase - Sherry Sontag - CppCon 2023

#cpp #cppcon Building Consensus on a Set of Rules for Our Massive C++ Codebase - Sherry Sontag - CppCon 2023 https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bth3PFsrsw In this talk, we will trace our efforts to build consensus across our Engineering department on how we use C++ at Bloomberg. We will use the example of how we are introducing broader naming conventions across the company’s massive C++ codebase, impacting our package management infrastructure and build tools. We will describe the lessons we’ve learned and the pitfalls we fell into as we were trying to achieve that goal, so that attendees can apply these lessons within their own organizations when introducing their own set of C++ rules. This will also highlight the value of journalism skills in approaching engineering questions. Most important are the willingness to seek out all sides of a question; being humble enough to truly listen to even your loudest critics; and the endurance to keep asking questions until the issues become completely clear. Our effort involved input from more than 150 people across many different application and infrastructure teams, many with different needs and coding styles. We then developed a set of rules that worked, though we also realize that the right answer will likely require ongoing flexibility. --- Sherry Sontag Sherry Sontag came to Bloomberg Engineering after co-authoring “Blind Man’s Bluff,” a New York Times bestseller about submarine espionage during the Cold War. Hired by Bloomberg 17 years ago for her ability to talk to anyone and actually listen, she recently has been working to create community consensus among developers as part of the Code Governance Solutions team. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Barnard College, Columbia University.

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