Basic Programming Knowledge
› malloc and free
To understand the job of a memory allocator, it's essential to understand how programs request and return memory. malloc and free are functions that were first introduced in a recognisable form in UNIX v7 in 1979(!). Let's take a look at a short C program demonstrating their use.
The twelve-factor methodology can be applied to apps written in any programming language, and which use any combination of backing services (database, queue, memory cache, etc).