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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.

Elevate Gives Retailers a Powerful New Tool for Managing Supply Chains

In today’s world, retail customers expect things fast. They want their products on time and they want their orders not to be canceled. And when things go wrong, they want answers. To deliver that experience, retailers need to be able to understand at a granular level how their customers’ orders are moving through their supply chains. In this episode of “Powered by Snowflake,” Daniel Myers chats with Elevate Co-founder and CTO James Sutton about his company’s recently introduced retail operations platform that provides the analytics retailers need to evaluate and manage supply chain performance.

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.

Why Google Cloud BigQuery for SAP Enterprises?

What is BigQuery and how can it help you gain new insights from your SAP data? In this video, Kevin Nelson, a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, will demonstrate how to integrate your SAP data with BigQuery to help drive new insights across your organization and give more power to your data analytics users. Chapters: product: Cloud - General; fullname: Kevin Nelson;

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.