Thoughts of a Curious Software Engineer

Recently, I took an interest in the Rust programming language due to its performance and safety. I chose Rust because of its RAII-based memory model, high-level abstractions which do not compromise perfomance, and the ability to disable its standard library and develop for bare metal. As a bonus, it comes... [Read More]

In my previous post, I provided insight on the importance of running docker with the --init flag to ensure the proper exit code is returned when an application calls the abort function. [Read More]

In an earlier post of mine “Let it explode!”, we explored “handling” certain exceptions via premature termination. Now, it is time to solve the mystery of process termination in Docker. [Read More]

The class template std::optional manages an optional contained value, i.e. a value that may or may not be present[1]. It is a great alternative for std::unique_ptr, or raw pointer, when used solely to express that a value is indeed optional. The type of the variable explicitly states that a contained... [Read More]

I was recently investigating a bug and would like to share an unexpected, yet interesting discovery regarding the cause of the issue. In order to provide an idea of what I was working on, consider the following code as a simplified representation: [Read More]