In today's information-centric globalized world, telecommunications have become an essential
part of our lives. They penetrate and play crucial roles in almost every aspect of our day-to-day
activities, from personal to professional. Sometimes, a failure to communicate information
correctly and on time may lead to significant loss of material assets or even casualties.
Therefore, it is very important to provide the highest level of reliability when it comes to
developing telecommunication software. However, it can be a really challenging task due
to the inherent complexity of the domain and accidental complexity of the low-level tools
provided by modern operating systems.
The Boost.Asio library is aimed at reducing accidental complexity by introducing type systems
and exploiting object-oriented methods, and decreasing the development time by providing
high degrees of reusability. In addition to this, because the library is cross-platform, the
applications implemented with it can be built on multiple platforms, which enhances
software qualities even more, while decreasing its costs.
This book contains more than 30 recipes—step-by-step solutions to various tasks that often
(and not so often) arise in the area of network programming. All recipes take advantage of
facilities provided by the Boost.Asio library, demonstrating best practices of applying the
library to execute typical tasks and solve different problems.
