server_development

Server Development

Technical Requirements for C++ Server Developer

Core Skills

C++ Programming

• Modern C++ (C++11/14/17/20) features
• Template programming and generic programming
• RAII and exception safety
• Move semantics and copy elision
• constexpr and compile-time evaluation

Network Programming

• Socket programming (TCP/UDP)
• epoll/kqueue/IOCP (async I/O)
• HTTP/HTTPS protocol implementation
• gRPC and protobuf
• WebSocket server development

Concurrency & Parallelism

• Thread pools and task queues
• Lock-free data structures
• Memory ordering and atomic operations
• Condition variables and synchronization primitives
• Actor model implementations

System Programming

• Linux system calls and APIs
• POSIX threads (pthreads)
• File I/O and memory-mapped files
• Signal handling
• Process management and IPC

Tools & Technologies

Frameworks & Libraries

• Boost libraries (Asio, Beast, etc.)
• libevent/libev/libuv (event loops)
• muduo (C++ network library)
• Seastar (high-performance framework)
• DPDK (packet processing)

Databases

• SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB)
• Connection pooling
• ORM and query builders
• Database sharding and replication

DevOps & Infrastructure

• Docker and Kubernetes
• Load balancing and service discovery
• Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Log aggregation (ELK stack)
• CI/CD pipelines

Domain Knowledge

• Distributed systems architecture
• CAP theorem and consistency models
• High availability and fault tolerance
• Backpressure and rate limiting
• Microservices vs monolithic architecture