Design a C++ Ring Buffer for Producer-Consumer Use

Design a C++ Ring Buffer for Producer-Consumer Use

Company: Applied Intuition

Role: Software Engineer

Category: Software Engineering Fundamentals

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Technical Screen

Overview: Design a fixed-capacity C++ ring buffer for producer-consumer use after making overflow, blocking, and concurrency semantics explicit. Explain FIFO wraparound, full-versus-empty state, object lifetime, synchronization, memory ordering, and how the design changes across thread models.