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A Guide To Continuous Integration

Before continuous integration was invented, developers had to work on code separately before merging it into the end product. This technique had a high chance of error. If something was left out, it took time to determine the problem. Furthermore, communication between team members became difficult as the project grew. The larger the project, the more developers, engineers, and project owners were supposed to be faithful to each other’s schedules.

How to Implement Custom Exceptions in C++

Under certain conditions, custom exceptions that are not predefined in C++ may be useful to generate. In C++, any type can be caught or thrown that matches some requirements. These are that the type should have a valid copy constructor and destructor. Custom exceptions provide relevant information about an error to the exception handling mechanism.

SOAP vs. REST: What's the Difference?

Numerous technologies underpin the web services we use daily. Web APIs are an essential component of the internet world. A web browser or a web server can use an API. When writing web code, developers must select the Web API that best fits the needs of their project. Web APIs come in a variety of forms. They enable two applications to communicate with one another using a set of rules.

Things you should know about Lazy Loading

The term lazy loading is a custom of hindering load or configuration of sources or entities until it is primarily required to upgrade functioning and maintain system sources. For instance, if an Internet domain has a depiction that the client has to browse down to refer to, by creating a placeholder content, the webpage starts to lazy load the content by allowing the website to provide only the accessed content instead of bulk loading all the content.

Automatically extract TML definitions from tml/export

ThoughtSpot elements such as search, Liveboards, and data connections are all defined in a JSON-based metadata definition called ThoughtSpot Modeling Language, or TML. Recently, I blogged about how you can use Postman to access platform APIs to import/export TML as part of your devops processes; for example, to check in TML definitions and push to another environment via a continuous integration process. The TML export is pretty straightforward.

Simulators vs. Emulators: What's the Difference, Anyway?

In the world of software testing, it’s common to hear folks talk about simulators and emulators as if the terms are synonymous. To a certain extent, that makes sense. Simulators and emulators are similar in many ways, and the differences between them don’t always matter from the perspective of a test engineer. But the fact remains that simulators and emulators are different beasts.

Matt Wyman on How Businesses Lose Money with Poor Code

Earlier this week, Sauce Labs Chief Customer Officer, Matt Wyman, sat down with journalist Marko Velimirović of Website Planet. The pair discussed the release of the consumer report Every Experience Matters as well as the state of DevOps, trends in testing and the increasing need for developers to deliver exceptional quality at velocity. To read the full interview, head over to Website Planet. A selected portion is included below.

Webinar Recap: Functional strategies for migrating from Hadoop to AWS

In a recent webinar, Functional (& Funny) Strategies for Modern Data Architecture, we combined comedy and practical strategies for migrating from Hadoop to AWS. Unravel Co-Founder and CTO Shivnath Babu moderated a discussion with AWS Principal Architect, Global Specialty Practice, Dipankar Ghosal and WANdisco CTO Paul Scott-Murphy. Here are some of the key takeaways from the event.