The above title is also one of the chapter titles from Hands-On Design Patterns with C++ by Fedor Pikus. I liked the idea so much that I quickly started to use it and I wanted to share some more de...
3 ways to stay motivated when you are leaving your job
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, ...
The copy and swap idiom in C++
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...
Price's law and 3 things to do if you're underpaid
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...
Trip report: C++ On Sea 2022
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...
Hands-On Design Patterns with C++ by Fedor Pikus
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...
6 C++23 features improving string and string_view
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 ...
What are string_views and why should we use them?
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...
Won't extend it more than once!
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...
C++: standardized
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...