I always figured you had a philosophy background because whenever I read
your messages, there was always something with that kind of perspective
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I'm SoCIaL, MayBe
El 13/12/2025 a las 1:34 p. m., Alex Balashov via sr-users escribió:
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
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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.
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I'm SoCIaL, MayBe
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