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How To Hire An Awesome Software Developer: 8 Questions You Need To Ask

Hiring a software developer is hard work! So how do you know if the programmer you’re interviewing is a good fit for your development team? This guide will help you evaluate candidates by examining their technical skills, team fit, and cultural fit. Incorporating ‘the why’ into your developer interview process can help make sure you’re hiring the right people for your culture. It’s also a great opportunity to gauge how well a candidate will do within your organization.

Using APIs to Build Robust Cloud-Native Infrastructures

The number of applications and services is increasing as companies face time-to-market pressure from customers. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are a key component of modern software architectures. APIs are tools that let companies share their data internally or with third-party services to create new value-driven products for customers.

You Are Measuring API Active Users Wrong

API providers need to understand how their consumers are using their APIs. Usage metrics are essential because they tell you about API adoption, how your API is growing over time, and which endpoints are seeing more (or less) use. When you look at API usage metrics, you should be measuring the active users on your API in the sense that most closely aligns with your service.

The roadmap to mobile success with Peter-John Welcome Mobile DevOps is a Thing! Podcast

In this episode, we focused on the challenges related to Android DevOps and how they can be solved by using the right tools and technologies. Throughout his years of consultancy experience, PJ has come up with a so-called “roadmap to mobile success”, with the necessary components for creating a successful CI pipeline: including branching release strategies, code reviews, app architecture, code coverage, and static code analysis. We discussed how these components fit into automation and the CI/CD process and what steps developers can take to reach success on mobile.

How to Improve Flask Performance

Flask is the most popular micro-framework for web programming in Python. Known for its lightweight build and flexibility, it is a fan favorite amongst beginners because of how easy it is to get started with, especially for building prototypes and small-scale projects. Even though Flask is one of the faster frameworks out there, there’s almost always scope for improving performance in web applications. Things might run fine when you serve minimal, static websites with ample compute resources.

Reprogramming the bank: Shifting gears on digital disruption, WSO2 | Finextra

In this 2 part series, Eric Newcomer, Chief Technology Officer at WSO2 speaks about self-disruption across the industry, what is meant by this and how this approach is helping FIs address business challenges. We learn how the internal disruption that comes with new technology strategies can benefit the customer, the type of strategies that could formalise this natural disruption to create a process of structured self-disruption, and how this fits in with the regulatory landscape.

The Stripe Developer Experience and Docs Teardown

In this article, we are going to explore why the Stripe developer experience is so passionately supported by thousands of developers globally. One of Stripe’s missions is to increase the GDP of the internet, and over the last decade, they’ve successfully executed 250 million API requests per day and over 91 billion requests per year through their APIs.

Using Profiling in Elixir to Improve Performance

Elixir is all about performance. Say you have an app up and running with Elixir, but some parts aren't working as fast as you would like them to. That is where profiling comes in. Profiling tools usually walk you through the frequency and duration of function calls and where they spend their time. Erlang has impressive profile tooling available at its disposal. In this post, we will look into three profiling tools in Elixir: cprof, eprof, and fprof.

Introduction Build Insights

A quick introduction to the Insights dashboard on Bitrise. Build Insights is a monitoring tool that provides you a convenient means to check in on your build performance and track accompanying metrics. With a quick scan, you can see how all your apps and workflows are doing. If something doesn't look right, drill in for more details to understand where the problem is on app, Workflow, and Step level. To optimize your builds, you can use the data from the following main areas.