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Optimizing Cloud Native Java: Practical Techniques for Improving JVM Application Performance

by Benjamin J. Evans

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What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)

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“Effective software change, like effective surgery, really involves deeper skills. Working with care doesn’t do much for you if you don’t use the right tools and techniques. Cover”
― Michael C. Feathers, Working Effectively with Legacy Code

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“You want to know how super-intelligent cyborgs might treat ordinary flesh-and-blood humans? Better start by investigating how humans treat their less intelligent animal cousins. It’s not a perfect analogy, of course, but it is the best archetype we can actually observe rather than just imagine.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

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“The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

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“In 2012 about 56 million people died throughout the world; 620,000 of them died due to human violence (war killed 120,000 people, and crime killed another 500,000). In contrast, 800,000 committed suicide, and 1.5 million died of diabetes. Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

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“People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown. But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

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