Thoughts of a Curious Software Engineer

A bit of history The first time a shared pointer was introduced in boost library in the year of 1999. Even before boost had release numbers! Back then the only alternative standard C++ could provide with was std::auto_ptr. It was so bad that it was rarely used, got deprecated in... [Read More]

As a reader may know UDP network protocol does not support either message retransmission or acknowledge. It means that all these problems are supposed to be handled at the application level. In audio/video transmission domain the problem is usually solved with forward error correction technique. The idea is to add... [Read More]

This is the second post about debugging with strace. [Read More]

Debugging is an important part of software engineering and every developer has a few debugging tools in his toolbelt. Usually, I use logs and a debugger and that’s enough for my everyday work. But lately, I had to work with an open source SIP client called baresip. Baresip is a... [Read More]

Once upon a time, in the company where I work there was a bug in production that caused to the Too many files open error. [Read More]