Thoughts of a Curious Software Engineer

If you work with secret keys — signing keys, API tokens, anything that must not leak — you’ve probably written this happy little line and felt good about it: 1 secret.zeroize(); Wiped!

For years, we repeated the same two words: “Architecture matters.”

It has been more than two years since my last post, and a year since my book was published.

Recently, several friends directed my attention to an intriguing article detailing Amazon Prime’s transition from a microservices architecture back to a monolith.

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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.

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.

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

The Rust programming language provides a few ways to terminate a program when it reaches an unrecoverable state by calling the macro std::panic!

The purpose of this post is to provide general guidance on enabling and collecting core dumps for applications running in a docker container.

Recently, I took an interest in the Rust programming language due to its performance and safety.

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.

In an earlier post of mine “Let it explode!”

The class template std::optional manages an optional contained value, i.e. a value that may or may not be present[1].

I was recently investigating a bug and would like to share an unexpected, yet interesting discovery regarding the cause of the issue.

Exceptions are an inherent part of modern C++.

For the past five years, my go-to text editors have been Vim and gVim/MacVim.

Recently, I was writing a script whose function was to retrieve and parse a list of processes that were running in a docker container.

Intro Recently, I have been reviewing the function std::async and decided to get a better understanding.

While writing about smart pointers in C++, I noticed a funny thing: Google Docs knows about C++ syntax but not C++ 11!