Did You Say COBOL? It’s Time to Recruit
With a significantly high demand for COBOL programmers, engineering organizations should focus on hiring for talent and not as much for skills.
Deploying and Maintaining Cloud Infrastructure? Take a Look at Terraform
Thanks to infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, sysadmins and other IT pros are able to manage and provision their IT infrastructure through text files that look like code, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools.
RAII in C
In my last post, I talked about resource management, and how RAII, Resource Acquisition is Initialization, is important in C++ because of the guarantees it provides. In this post, I’ll show how we can make the same guarantees in C. In C++, RAII provides a solution to resource management and the issues arising with exceptions.…
RAII Introduction
RAII, or Resource Acquisition is Initialization, is a programming idiom that originally came out of the C++ community. However, it’s a powerful approach that can be used in many languages, including old-fashioned C. In this blog post, I’ll introduce the RAII concept and examine the guarantees it provides in C++. A subsequent post will demonstrate…
Google I/O Rundown
Here’s a quick rundown from a tech perspective of what Google announced last week at its I/O conference: Google.ai Google bases most of its service model on artificial intelligence (AI). In this year’s I/O, they announced some really cool new data-center clusters called Tensor Processing Units (TPUs): huge, heavy-duty number-crunching machines that each provide up…
Faster Python With Cython and PyPy: Part 2
Last week I started this two-part blog series about increasing the speed of Python through Cython and PyPy. While we already discussed the effects of Cython, I wanted to continue the discussion with a look at PyPy and then a contrast of both PyPy and Cython. How Fast Is PyPy? PyPy is an alternative Python…
Faster Python With Cython and PyPy: Part 1
When a Python program runs too slowly for our liking, there are several ways to speed it up. I recently spent some time experimenting with two of the most popular tools: Cython and PyPy. In this two-part post, I will discuss both solutions, starting today with Cython.
Computing Primes in Python and C++
I recently had the opportunity to implement a Python program to compute prime numbers. After I was done, I wondered how the Python implementation compared to doing the same exact thing in C++, so I decided to do a comparison. First, the Python program. I computed prime numbers using the Sieve of Eratosthenes. (No, I…