This is me playing around in C.

No reason.

For fun and for a change of pace from my usual day to day work.

Really though, the more pertinent question you should be asking is:

1. Let's Write a Linux Daemon
2. Understanding Dynamo with Andy Gross
3. Graphite - Enterprise Scalable Realtime Graphing

• command line argument parsing
• config file loading
• logging
• daemonizing
• unit tests
• listens for UDP traffic
• reads to and writes to files

• make it useful
• make it robust
• make some web graphing frontends

./build.py

For building: fabricate

Ini file loading: inih

Unit tests: check