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Lasting Quality

Constructing quality software systems is a moral responsibility. Attending to the elements of Structural Quality while embracing Abstraction & Composition enables quality today and quality that lasts.

Michael Caisse

cppnow

May 1, 2026

c++ quality abstraction +1

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groov: Asynchronous Handling of Special Function Registers

groov is a library that allows definition of registers as compositions of fields and access rules.

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Sender Patterns to Wrangle Concurrency in Embedded Devices

Asynchronous event handling is the bread and butter of small embedded systems; however, the lack of robust libraries in the bare-metal arena often result in a concurrency nightmare.

Michael Caisse

cppcon

September 19, 2024

c++ embedded library +1

Keynote: Employing Senders and Receivers to Tame Concurrency in Embedded Systems

Asynchronous event handling is the bread and butter of small embedded systems; however, the lack of robust libraries in the bare-metal arena often result in a concurrency nightmare.

Michael Caisse

c++now

May 1, 2024

c++ embedded library +1

Message Handling in Embedded: a Declarative, Modern C++ Approach

A declarative approach to solving common problems with message handling in embedded systems: bit mapping fields, filtering, and dispatching to handlers.

Michael Caisse

c++now

May 4, 2022

c++ embedded messaging +1

Message Handling in Embedded: A Declarative Modern C++ Approach

Messages are everywhere. This declarative library is what you have been looking for.

Small Inspiration

A keynote about inspiring and being inspired by the embedded world, delivered live and in person at CppCon 2021.

Michael Caisse

cppcon

October 28, 2021

c++ embedded community +1

Using C Libraries in your Modern C++ Embedded Project

Patterns for using C-libraries in Modern C++

Dealing with Embedded Limitations

Panel discussion hosted by Ben Saks with Daniel Papke, Inbal Levi, Brett Searles, Michael Caisse, and Michael Wong.

Embedded Domain Specific Languages for Embedded Bare Metal Projects

Using embedded DSLs in C++ to create expressive, type-safe interfaces for bare-metal embedded development.

Modern C++ in Embedded Systems - The Saga Continues

Continuing to explore how modern C++ features and idioms can be applied effectively in resource-constrained embedded environments.

CppCast Episode 157: Modern C++ in Embedded Systems with Michael Caisse

Rob and Jason are joined by Michael Caisse from Ciere consulting to discuss Modern C++ in Embedded Systems, boostache and his work at Ciere Consulting and in the C++ Community.

Modern C++ in Embedded Systems

Exploring how modern C++ features and idioms can be applied effectively in resource-constrained embedded environments.

Get Involved!

Lightning talk describing ways to get involved in your community.

Michael Caisse

cppcon

October 1, 2017

community robots lightning

Practical Patterns with the Networking TS

Networking is coming to a standard. Based on concepts found in Boost.Asio, the Networking TS provides a rich API for synchronous and asynchronous network communications.

Michael Caisse

cppcon

September 26, 2017

c++ networking library

Modern C++

Michael's rebuttal to Jon's Modern C++

Networking TS Workshop

A two-part hands-on workshop exploring the Networking TS proposal, its relationship to Boost.Asio, and practical patterns for async networking in C++.

Michael Caisse

c++now

May 16, 2017

c++ networking library

Asynchronous IO with Boost.Asio

An introduction to the Boost.Asio library for managing asynchronous I/O including TCP sockets, timers, and serial ports without manual thread management.

Michael Caisse

meeting c++

November 19, 2016

c++ networking library

Standard Poetry Slam

Meeting C++ 2016 had Secret Lightning Talks and Michael did a poetry slam.

Implementing a Modern C++ MQTT Client for Embedded Devices

Exploring maqiatto, an open source MQTT client library written for embedded systems in modern C++.

Asynchronous IO with Boost.Asio

Introduction to the Boost.Asio library and best practices while implementing a simple TCP client and server.

Michael Caisse

cppcon

September 20, 2016

c++ networking library

Implenting a Modern C++ MQTT Client for Embedded Devices

Introducing MaQiaTTo for embedded MQTT handling.

Boostache Exposed: the internals of Boost's template engine

Conntinuing to explore how modern C++ features and idioms can be applied effectively in resource-constrained embedded environments.

Using Spirit X3 to Write Parsers

Spirit provides a DSEL that allows grammars to be described in a natural and declarative manner just like writing PEG or EBNF directly in your C++ code.

The Canonical Class

Exploring the boilerplate of a C++11 class including rvalue references, move semantics, perfect forwarding, explicit, noexcept, and initializer lists.