Thoughts of a Curious Software Engineer

Recently, several friends directed my attention to an intriguing article detailing Amazon Prime’s transition from a microservices architecture back to a monolith. It seems like this change of paradigm has triggered a lot of debates in the network, so I decided to share my thoughts on the topic. [Read More]

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After my post std::shared_ptr is an anti-pattern I was thinking about an example of justified usage of std::shared_ptr. I have mentioned that it can be used to implement caching, and in this post, I am going to use it for implementing reloadable config. [Read More]

After I published Dockerized build environments for C/C++ projects, I was approached on a few occasions, both online and offline, with questions regarding my IDE/text editor setup. [Read More]

In this post, I will share how to create a docker-based build environment for C and C++ projects targeted for Linux. [Read More]