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Where programming languages are headed in 2020

O'Reilly

Java. It’s mostly good news on the Java front. Java Champion Ben Evans explains, “Once again, rumours of Java’s demise have proved to be little more than wishful thinking on the part of the platform’s detractors.” ” But it hasn’t all been smooth sailing.

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RSA Guide 2023: Cloud application security remains core challenge for organizations

Dynatrace

For example, the open source Java library at the heart of the Log4Shell crisis in 2021 was patched within days given the pervasiveness of the code. According to a recent survey, even among organizations that have shifted left, 75% of C-suite executives say security challenges limit their ability to innovate.

Cloud 246
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Fast Intersection of Sorted Lists Using SSE Instructions

Highly Scalable

In this article I describe several useful techniques that are based on SSE instructions and provide results of performance testing for Lucene, Java, and C implementations. Performance of this procedure both in C and Java will be evaluated in the last section. return count; }.

C++ 102
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Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining

Highly Scalable

Let us start with a simple example that illustrates capabilities of probabilistic data structures: Let us have a data set that is simply a heap of ten million random integer values and we know that it contains not more than one million distinct values (there are many duplicates). what is the cardinality of the data set)?

Analytics 191
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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

Each time, the underlying implementation changed a bit while still staying true to the larger phenomenon of “Analyzing Data for Fun and Profit.” ” They weren’t quite sure what this “data” substance was, but they’d convinced themselves that they had tons of it that they could monetize.

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The End of Programming as We Know It

O'Reilly

It lets a programmer use a human-like language to tell the computer to move data to locations in memory and perform calculations on it. Then, development of even higher-level compiled languages like Fortran, COBOL, and their successors C, C++, and Java meant that most programmers no longer wrote assembly code.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Even Faster Websites.