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How to Fix Unterminated String Literals

Imagine you want to leave a note for someone. You write the message on a piece of paper and put it in an envelope. The envelope around your note keeps the message contained and separate from other things. It's the same idea with terminating string literals. A string literal is like the note you wrote, while terminating it is like sealing the envelope. Here's an example: The phrase "Hello, world!" is the string literal, while the double quotation marks tell the computer where the string begins and ends.

The Ultimate Guide to REST API Naming Convention: Best Practices for Clarity & Consistency

Efficient and consistent REST API naming conventions can streamline your development process and make navigating your API easier for developers. This guide will look at what’s needed for creating intuitive and consistent endpoint names, REST API naming conventions and best practices, and how to avoid common errors. Let’s begin by taking a quick refresher on some of the basics of REST API endpoints.

New in Databox: Analyze The Performance of Any Metric or KPI With Metric Insights

Whether you’re a leader, manager, or individual contributor, chances are you need to keep a close eye on a handful of key metrics. If you’re the Sales leader, it might be KPIs like Leads, SQLs, and Close Rate. If you’re running paid ads, it might be Total Ad Spend or Cost Per Conversion. Of course, you can view these metrics on dashboards and get updates through automated reports.

AI is Being Used as More Than Just an LLM

Are we in an AI bubble? We can't stop talking about AI in tech. It's at every conference and in every startup pitch. But is the rest of the world as enamored as we are? In this conversation, we explore AI’s impact beyond the echo chamber of the tech industry. We look at attitudes toward AI in other spaces, from healthcare to finance, weighing the risks and benefits of its application. We also look to the future, questioning whether we’ve reached the limits of AI given compute power constraints.

Magnite's Seamless Petabyte Scale Cross-Region Migration with Snowgrid

Magnite stands as the largest independent sell-side advertising platform, providing an essential bridge between publishers and advertisers. At its core, Magnite streamlines the advertising process, facilitating the buying and selling of advertising space across various channels, including connected TV (CTV), mobile, and desktop environments.

Confidential Computing: Reinforcing Security at the Point of Processing

Confidential computing offers a groundbreaking approach to data security confidentiality, vital for industries like healthcare, finance, and government, where sensitive information reigns supreme. Unlike traditional security measures that center on data at rest or in transit, confidential computing shields data during the processing phase itself.

Web design trends to keep an eye on in 2024

What if your website still looked like it belonged on the older websites? Web design has come a long way from the days of heavy textures and 3D effects. Today, the field is all about sleek, user-friendly interfaces that cater to modern user needs. As we venture into 2024, staying ahead with the latest trends is more important than ever. In the early 2010s, a significant shift occurred in web design with the rise of mobile devices and responsive design.

Managing Go Processes

While working on an application that required executing a command to run a blocking program, such as a TCP/HTTP server, I encountered an interesting challenge. I needed a way to stop the application and its child processes when a signal was sent to the main program, such as SIGINT (Ctrl+C) or SIGTERM. This blog post shares my journey and the solutions I found to manage processes effectively in a Go application, focusing on Linux environments.