Most interesting indeed! My parents are both professors of philosophy (in very different areas -- one more on the Anglo-American analytic/scientific side, the other a real Continentalist/neo-Platonist), and I was a philosophy major at university, two decades ago, until I dropped out to pursue OpenSER (Kamailio). ;)
In that light, I can appreciate this endeavour. I shall certainly take a look. -- Alex > On Dec 13, 2025, at 12:59 PM, Social Boh via sr-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Kamailio community, > > I've published something unusual: a philosophy course for VoIP engineers. > > "Philosophy of VoIP Infrastructure: Why Your Technical Decisions Are > Philosophical" > > Not "professional ethics 101." This is Plato, Foucault, Heidegger, and > Bergson applied to actual Kamailio/RTPEngine problems. > > Example: The CAP theorem isn't just a technical limitation—it's the same > debate Parmenides and Heraclitus had 2500 years ago about the nature of > reality. Understanding this won't change your kamailio.cfg, but it will > change how you think about consistency vs availability trade-offs. > > Four modules: > - Ontology (what exists: protocols, containers, distributed state) > - Epistemology (how we know: logs as testimony, Lamport timestamps, debugging > biases) > - Ethics (who benefits: power relations in centralized vs distributed > architectures) > - Temporality (lived vs measured time: jitter buffer as phenomenology) > > Each connects philosophical concepts with concrete VoIP code examples. > > It's completely free. Available in English and Spanish. > > Link: https://campus.mesaproyectos.com/course/view.php?id=53 > > Warning: This won't make you configure Kamailio faster. It will give you > conceptual clarity that no RFC provides. If you're looking for a technical > tutorial, this isn't it. > > If you've ever wondered why certain "technical" decisions feel philosophical, > this course is for you. > > Feedback welcome. > -- > --- > I'm SoCIaL, MayBe > __________________________________________________________ > Kamailio - Users Mailing List - Non Commercial Discussions -- > [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Important: keep the mailing list in the recipients, do not reply only to the > sender! -- Alex Balashov Principal Consultant Evariste Systems LLC Web: https://evaristesys.com, https://www.csrpswitch.com Tel: +1-706-510-6800 __________________________________________________________ Kamailio - Users Mailing List - Non Commercial Discussions -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Important: keep the mailing list in the recipients, do not reply only to the sender!
