Tag: Programming Languages

With a significantly high demand for COBOL programmers, engineering organizations should focus on hiring for talent and not as much for skills.

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.

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.... View Article

Explore RAII: a powerful C++ programming idiom for resource management. Learn how it ensures exception safety, prevents leaks, and can be applied in C.

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... View Article

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. What is PyPy and how fast is it? PyPy... View Article

When a Python program runs too slowly for our liking, there are several ways to speed it up. Our expert recently spent some time experimenting with two of the most popular tools: Cython and PyPy. This two-part post begins by delving into Cython.

Explore prime number computation: Python vs. C++. Discover speed insights between these languages using the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm. Download Python and C++ code here!