article thumbnail

Attracting quality talent through hackathons

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

When it comes to recruitment, the following five important parameters or metrics ascertain its effectiveness. The goal is to build a working prototype in the form of a website, an app, or a robot to solve a given problem. Why hackathons for hiring? Quality of hire Time to hire Cost of hire Candidate experience Diversity and inclusion.

article thumbnail

Technology Trends for 2025

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The data in each graph is based on OReillys units viewed metric, which measures the actual use of each item on the platform. PHP (down 19%) still claims to have built the lions share of the web, but its not what developers reach for when they want to build something new, particularly if that new is a complex web application.

Trends 132
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Distro for Java reaches 1.0 release

Honeycomb

Honeycomb now has better support for OpenTelemetry app metrics. distro, we’ve made enhancements to make it easier for you to send Honeycomb your metrics data by compressing it into fewer events for you—automatically! App Metrics, such as garbage collection data or performance metrics of the JVM. Why compress metrics data?

Metrics 98
article thumbnail

Introduction to Perceptual Hashes: Measuring Similarity

Apiumhub

Thankfully, a BK-tree -a tree specifically designed for metric spaces like Hamming distance- can be used here instead of having to search against every image in the database, greatly reducing the space needed for evaluation. pHash gives a metric about the similarity between two sources, which prevents duplication in the main dataset.

article thumbnail

Scout Extended: The Full Power of Algolia in Laravel

Algolia

This command will create a new aggregator class in the app/Search directory: php artisan scout:make-aggregator News. To keep your existing search experience available while reimporting your data, use the scout:reimport Artisan command: php artisan scout:reimport. In other words, it allows you to have multiple models in one index.

PHP 81
article thumbnail

Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Just a few notes on methodology: This report is based on O’Reilly’s internal “Units Viewed” metric. Companies aren’t going to throw out 20 years’ investment in PHP so they can adopt the latest popular React framework, which will probably be displaced by another popular framework next year. PHP grew 5.9% in the past year.

Trends 142
article thumbnail

How the Wikimedia Foundation Successfully Migrated to PHP7

LaunchDarkly

So, our core software is MediaWiki, which is a 19 year old Apache, PHP, MySQL application, and around MediaWiki there’s a very thick caching layer. Around 2014, we started using HHVM instead of MOD-PHP on Apache. HHVM, which is Hip Hop Virtual Machine, is developed by Facebook, and it is to PHP what JVM is to Java.

PHP 10