What does building system software feel like? What does a long term career in Systems Programming look like? What kind of mindset and skills are required to succeed here? What are some misconceptions about this field? ​

We discuss all this with Arun Raghavan. Arun runs a system software consultancy called Asymptotic.io. He has been a long term contributor to multimedia frameworks like GStreamer and PulseAudio. He has been developing software for over 15 years and has worked at companies like Nvidia and Collabora.

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Arun's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arunsraghavan/

Episode length: 34 min | Listen on: Spotify | Google | Apple | More options

Mentioned in this episode

1. Systems Programming - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_programming

2. GStreamer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GStreamer

3. PulseAudio - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio

4. PipeWire - https://pipewire.org/

5. Collabora - https://www.collabora.com/

6. Asymptotic.io - https://asymptotic.io/

7. Electronic Design Automation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_design_automation

8. Bit banging - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_banging

9. I-square C - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C2%B2C

10. System on a Chip - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_on_a_chip

11. DLNA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Living_Network_Alliance

12. H.264 - https://www.haivision.com/resources/streaming-video-definitions/h-264/

13. Abhinav Sarkar - https://abhinavsarkar.net/

14. V8 Javascript Engine - https://v8.dev/

15. libuv - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libuv

16. NodeJS - https://nodejs.org/en/about/

17. Rust - https://www.rust-lang.org/

18. Lua - https://www.lua.org/about.html

19. Haskell - https://www.haskell.org/

20. NeoVim - https://neovim.io/

21. Arun's Twitter id - https://twitter.com/louiswu

22. Arun's email - arun@asymptotic.io