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Why Picnic picked Java

Picnic Engineering

Java 8 was released just the year before, adding the beloved lambdas and streams functionality. So why did we end up picking Java as our backend development stack? Remember how Twitter had to re-platform from Ruby to Java to support its growth? Unlike Twitter, Picnic embraced Java from the get-go! Why Java, the language?

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Databricks, Snowflake and the future

Christophe Blefari

Snowflake was founded in 2012 around its data warehouse product, which is still its core offering, and Databricks was founded in 2013 from academia with Spark co-creator researchers, becoming Apache Spark in 2014. you could write the same pipeline in Java, in Scala, in Python, in SQL, etc.—with Here we go again.

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Fine-Tuning Improves the Performance of Meta’s Code Llama on SQL Code Generation 

Snowflake

Along with the model release, Meta published Code Llama performance benchmarks on HumanEval and MBPP for common coding languages such as Python, Java, and JavaScript. On August 24, Meta released Code Llama , a new series of Llama2 models fine-tuned for code generation. This query is more difficult because there are many ways to get it wrong.

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Java Tutorial For Beginners

U-Next

Java-enabled general-purpose computers, mobile devices, and other handheld gadgets are a part of everyone’s daily life now. As a result, we can see that Java is one of the most widely used programming languages today. Therefore, our Java for beginners tutorial is here to educate the audience en masse. . Advantages of Java .

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Netflix Studio Hack Day?—?May 2019

Netflix Tech

We built this hack using Java (Springboot framework), the Google OAuth and Calendar APIs (for finding rooms) and Twilio API (for calling into the meeting), and deployed it on AWS. It then automatically calls in to that meeting and plays walk-off music similar to the Oscar’s to not-so-subtly encourage your colleagues to Get Out!

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The State of WebAssembly 2023 by Colin Eberhardt

Scott Logic

Many respondents shared that they expect WebAssembly to deliver on the “write once and run anywhere” promise that was originally made by Java. (If We are potentially seeing some impatience in the community, with the satisfaction in the evolution of WAI being notably less than the satisfaction people express in the evolution of WebAssembly.

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Best Ethical Hacking Books for 2024 [Beginners to Advanced]

Knowledge Hut

Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking - by Georgia Weidman Source Year of release and version: 2014, first edition Good Reads Rating: 4.26/5 Stack overflow, string format overflow, URL encoding, and other attack types are covered in great detail in numerous chapters, along with solutions using examples from C++ and Java.

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