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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.

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.

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.

Since 1983, IDEXX Laboratories has provided hardware for in-house diagnostics for veterinarians to conduct tests on samples. The company also provides a reference laboratory service to test samples. It is headquartered in Maine, USA, and has offices in the Netherlands.

The Node.js team announced the release of version 18 on April 19. Node.js 18 has some significant new features that Node developers should be aware of. In this article, we'll look at some of the major highlights from this release.