The One Billion Row Challenge or 1BRC or 1⃣ was a challenge to read a CSV file of one billion rows with “station name;temperature” data and compute the min/average/max temperature per weather station as fast as possible. If you want to know what is the fastest algorithm, you can go the the 1BRC page. But the real answer is “it …

In my recent conversation with William Fellows, Research Director at S&P Global Market Research, we discussed ways to reduce cloud waste specifically for Java workloads. After all, cloud cost optimization is hard. A large delta is growing between budgeted and actual spending. Top areas for spending are cloud integration and modernization services, security and compliance monitoring, and application modernization – specifically applications written …

The Open Worldwide Application Security Project is an online community that produces freely available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the fields of IoT, system software and web application security. The OWASP provides free and open resources. It is led by a non-profit called The OWASP Foundation. The OWASP Top 10 – 2021 is the published result of recent …