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Best Programming Languages for 2024

Knowledge Hut

Go (Golang) Crafted at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson in 2007, Go, colloquially known as Golang (one of the most trending programming language), was developed to address the inefficiencies and complexities they faced with traditional languages. Prerequisites: Basic understanding of Java or another OOP language.

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Cassandra Unleashed: How We Enhanced Cassandra Fleet’s Efficiency and Performance

DoorDash Engineering

Before we dive into those details, let’s briefly talk about the basics of Cassandra and its pros and cons as a distributed NoSQL database. Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across a wide range of commodity servers. What is Apache Cassandra?

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RocksDB Is Eating the Database World

Rockset

For a great overview on the need for these new database designs, I highly recommend watching the presentation, Stanford Seminar - Big Data is (at least) Four Different Problems , that database guru Michael Stonebraker delivered for Stanford’s Computer Systems Colloquium. RocksDB offers a key-value API, available for C++, C and Java.