We all leave our employer one day. In certain countries, like the US, you can get away with a 2-week-long notice period. It’s so short that it’s not even worth talking about it. On the other hand, ...

Last year, as the usage of our services grew sometimes by 20 times, we had to spend significant efforts on optimizing our application. Although these are C++-backed services, our focus was not on o...

Are you irritated when you hear about the increasing company earnings? Are you upset when you see salary statistics? Do you often feel underpaid? Let me tell you something. If you’re on the top of...

It was the first time for me to go abroad for a conference and the first time to travel to a C++ conference as a speaker. I was so excited! I’m grateful to the organizers, my employer and of course...

In Hands-On Design Patterns with C++, the author Fedor Pikus shares the most common design patterns used in modern C++. In fact, not only design patterns but also some best practices and idioms. He...

In this blog post, let’s collect a couple of changes that are going to be shipped with C++23 and are all related to strings or string_views. std::string and std::string_view have contains One of ...

std::string_view has been introduced by C++17 and its purpose is to provide read-only access to character sequences. It potentially replaces const string& parameters and offers a significant pe...

A few months ago I changed teams and I started to work on a library that helps its users to perform cryptographic operations. Those operations need a so-called Hardware Security Module (HSM) that i...

In this article, let’s step back from coding a little bit. We are going to discuss how C++ was born and how it’s been evolving ever since. We’ll only have a brief overview of what happened in the l...

In C++ the size of a bool is 1 byte. That’s the case despite that it can only have two values, true or false which can be represented on one single bit. This might not be a concern all the time, bu...