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For more than a dozen years, the Stack Overflow Podcast has been exploring what it means to be a software developer and how the art and practice of programming is changing our world. From Rails to React, from Java to Node.js, join the Stack home team for conversations with fascinating guests to help you understand how technology is made and where it’s headed.
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Mobile Observability: monitoring performance through cracked screens, old batteries, and crappy Wi-Fi
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You can learn more about Austin on LinkedIn and check out a blog he wrote on building the SDK for Open Telemetry here. You can find Austin at the CNCF Slack community, in the OTel SIG channel, or the client-side SIG channels. The calendar is public on opentelemetry.io. Embrace has its own Slack community to talk all things Embrace or all things mob…
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For the last two years, Postgres has been the most popular database among respondents to our Annual Developer Survey. Timescale is a startup working on an open-source PostgreSQEL stack for AI applications. You can follow the company on X and check out their work on GitHub. You can learn more about Avthar on his website and on LinkedIn. Congrats to …
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You can learn more about Geshan on his website or check him out on LinkedIn. Geshan also shared the slide decks for a few of his talks on serverless and containers. Congrats to Stack Overflow user Matthew Reed for earning a populist badge with his answer to the question: GitHub: How to do case sensitive search for the code in repository?…
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If you’ve never seen it, check out Ryan’s classic talk, 10 Things I Regret About Node.JS, which gives a great overview of the reasons he felt compelled to create Deno. You can learn more about Ryan on Wikipedia, his website, and his Github page. To learn more about Deno 2.0, listen to Ryan talk about it here and check out the project’s Github page …
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You can find Ilya on LinkedIn here. You can listen to Ilya talk about Commerce Components here, a system he describes as a "modern way to approach your commerce architecture without reducing it to a (false) binary choice between microservices and monoliths." As Ilya notes, “there are a lot of interesting implications for runtime and how we're solvi…
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Coalesce is a solution to transform data at scale. You can find Satish on LinkedIn. We previously spoke to Satish for a Q&A on the blog: AI is only as good as the data: Q&A with Satish Jayanthi of Coalesce We previously covered metadata on the blog: Metadata, not data, is what drags your database down Congrats to Lifeboat winner nwinkler for saving…
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Read Dan’s blog post about the process of making Stack Overflow more accessible. We followed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), with a few exceptions. For example, we chose to measure color contrast using the Accessible Perceptual Contrast Algorithm (APCA). We quantified the accessibility of our products using the Axe accessibility te…
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Read the blog post or dive into the results of our 2024 Developer Survey. A few highlights to get you started: most popular technologies, most admired and desired programming languages, feelings about/use of AI coding tools, and what we know about the global developer community. Speaking of our developer community, Stack Overflow user Frank earned …
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Cortex is an internal developer portal that cuts noise and helps devs build and continuously improve software. Explore their docs or see what’s happening on their blog. Cortex is also hiring, so if you’re an engineer who wants to work on these kinds of problems, check out their careers page. Connect with Anish on LinkedIn or X. Ganesh is also on Li…
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As Josh explains, DDoS attacks aim to take down a website, while bot scrapers try to gather as much data as possible without getting caught. Josh Zhang is a staff site reliability engineer (SRE) at Stack Overflow. Connect with him on LinkedIn. ICYMI: In 2022, Josh wrote an article for our blog about how Stack defends itself against DDoS attacks. St…
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Jannis Kallinikos is a coauthor of Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy (MIT Press, 2024) with Cristina Alaimo, which lays out a framework for a new social science focused on the socioeconomic changes driven by data. You can read an excerpt from Data Rules on our blog here. Explore more of Dr. Kallinikos’s work. Shoutout to Lifeboat badge win…
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Chelsea Troy defines technical debt and maintenance load in her blog post, “Stop saying ‘technical debt.’” Learn more about technical bankruptcy in this blog post, “Monitoring debt builds up faster than software teams can pay it off.” Joel Spolsky’s classic blog post on avoiding rewriting code from scratch – Things you should never do, part I. Tech…
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You can connect with Lenny Primak at Flow Logix, X, LinkedIn, Github, or Mastodon. Got questions about Java? Check out the site. Apache Groovy is a Java programming language. Virtual Threads reduce the effort put into writing and maintaining code as well as observing high-throughput concurrent applications. Apache Shiro is an open-source security f…
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LlamaIndex is a data framework for building LLM applications. Check out the open-source framework or get started with the developer community, LlamaHub. Looking for a deeper understanding of RAG? Start with our guide. Wondering how to import `SimpleDirectoryReader` from LlamaIndex? This question has you covered. Jerry Chen is a partner at Greylock.…
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Learn more about Staging Ground on our blog or in the help center. Find Kyle on LinkedIn, GitHub, and Twitter. Spevacus is a full stack developer and Stack Overflow moderator. They’re a participant in Charcoal, a user-run group that fights spam and rude/abusive content across the Stack Exchange network.…
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Stack Overflow and Elastic are collaborating to improve the search experience using vector search and generative AI. Learn more about the new AI features for Stack Overflow for Teams, including Enhanced Search. Learn more about the Elastic platform, including vector search. Developers can start building here. Connect with Paul, Steffi, and Gregor o…
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Carol is an applied clinical and intervention scientist: she develops and tests cognitive, behavioral, and social interventions that activate key mechanisms to elicit change. Learn more about understanding and mitigating code review anxiety (the full version of her article is here). You can also check out the code review anxiety workbook. Pluralsig…
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Still thinking about developer happiness and productivity? Read Eira’s article about the real 10x developers among us. Connect with Ben Borra through his website or LinkedIn. Asked and answered: Stack Overflow user Jian earned a Great Question badge with How do I close a frozen SSH session?.由Ben Popper, Ryan Donovan, Ben Borra
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Before Medplum, Reshma founded and exited two startups in the healthcare space – MedXT (managing medical images online acquired by Box) and Droplet (at-home diagnostics company acquired by Ro). Reshma has a B.S. in computer science and a Masters of Engineering from MIT. You can learn more about Medplum here and check out their Github, which has ove…
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Cassidy reflect on her time as a CTO of a startup and how the shifting environment for funding has created new pressures and incentives for founders, developers, and venture capitalists. Ben tries to get a bead on a new Moore’s law for the GenAI era: when will we start to see diminishing returns and fewer step factor jumps? Ben and Cassidy remember…
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How would all this work in practice? Of course, any metric you set out can easily become a target that developers look to game. With Snapshot Reviews, the goal is to get a high level overview of a software team’s total activity and then use AI to measure the complexity of the tasks and output. If a pull request attached to a Jira ticket is evaluate…
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RelationalAI’s first big partner is Snowflake, meaning customers can now start using their data with GenAI without worrying about the privacy, security, and governance hassle that would come with porting their data to a new cloud provider. The company promises it can also add metadata and a knowledge graph to existing data without pushing it throug…
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Palmer says that a huge percentage of today’s top websites, including apps like ChartGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, were built with Vercel’s Next.JS. For the second goal, you can see what Vercel is up to with its v0 project, which lets developers use text prompts and images to generate code. Third, the Vercel AI SDK, which aims to to help developers …
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You can learn more about these three features on our Overflow AI site. If you want to connect with Tiago, you can find him on LinkedIn. The same goes for Alexa. A shoutout to Stack Overflow user Mahozad for earning a LifeBoat badge with their answer to the question: How can I add Jetpack Compose & xml in the same activity?…
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You can learn more about Squire AI here Connect with Patel on his LinkedIn Congrats to Bharath Pabba for earning a Great Question badge and helping 129,000 people with a similar question by asking: How to disable source maps for React JS Application?由Stack Overflow
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You can find Narayan on LinkedIn. Learn more about SnapLogic here. Congrats to our user of the week, Ethan Heilman, for earning a Great Question badge by showing some curiosity and asking: How do I deal with garbage collection logs in Java? This question has been viewed over 175,000 times and helped lots of folks gain some new knowledge :)…
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You can find Shestakofsky on his website or check him out on X. Grab a copy of his new book: Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality. As he writes on his website, the book: Draws on 19 months of participant-observation research to examine how investors’ demand for rapid growth created organizational problems …
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Temporal is an open-source implementation of durable execution, a development paradigm that preserves complete application state so that upon host or software failure it can seamlessly migrate execution to another machine. Learn how it works or dive into the docs. Temporal’s SaaS offering is Temporal Cloud. Replay is a three-day conference focused …
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Robin is the author of a practical handbook for Selenium test automation. Connect with Robin on LinkedIn, Twitter, or via his website. Shoutout to user2651084, who earned a Great Question badge by asking How do I reset the Jupyter/IPython input prompt numbering?.由Ben Popper, Ryan Donovan, Robin Gupta
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Galileo is an end-to-end platform for GenAI evaluation, experimentation, and observability. Learn more by exploring their docs. Galileo’s Hallucination Index is a ranking and evaluation framework for LLM hallucinations (it includes a blooper reel). Connect with Vikram on LinkedIn. Stack Overflow user Petr Janeček won a Lifeboat badge for answering …
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OverflowAI is a GenAI-powered add-on for Stack Overflow for Teams that does the heavy lifting of discovering and distilling information into a coherent answer. It encompasses three modules: Enhanced Search, an upgraded search experience; Stack Overflow for Visual Studio Code, an IDE extension; and Auto-Answer App for Slack, which automates access t…
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Al Sweigert is the author of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and many other books about programming. You can read them all for free here. His scroll art project introduces beginners to programming by letting them turn loops and print() into animated ASCII art. Al joined us from a retreat at the Brooklyn, NY-based Recurse Center, which offers …
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Read Eira’s two-part series about developers with ADHD here and here. Chris recommends that devs with ADHD employ a “second brain” to help them track and remember information. Read Eira’s article on what second brains reveal about how we work. A few years back Chris joined us to talk about the most lightweight web “framework” around: VanillaJS. Lis…
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Kong is a cloud-native API gateway. Find them on GitHub. We last spoke with Marco in 2023. inf Connect with Marco on LinkedIn. Congrats to Famous Question badge winner mjbradford7 on How to re-render one component from another in React.由Marco Palladino, Ryan Donovan
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If you’ve been laid off or you’re just sweating the possibility, here’s what to do. Check out the results of our last job market survey. Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn. Shoutout to stevenkucera, who earned a Stellar Question badge with How do I create a global, mutable singleton?.由Ben Popper, Ryan Donovan, Patrick Carlile
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In a narrow vote, the US Federal Trade Commission banned almost all noncompete agreements, a staple of the tech industry for years. Learn how a 2017 tax law is haunting startups in 2024. Finnish hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki exposed tens of thousands of confidential psychiatric records and tried to extort payment directly from the affected patients. …
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SQLite is the most used database engine in the world. Stop by the forum or explore the docs. Devs have pledged to support SQLite through the year 2050. The developer with a team of three, all of them himself at different points in time, was Tarn Adams of Dwarf Fortress fame. On Stack Overflow, 1.2 million people have found the answer to How can I l…
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Meta’s open-source Llama 3 model puts Meta’s AI assistant head-to-head with ChatGPT. Stability AI laid off 10% of its workforce, the first major AI foundation model to reduce its workforce since the advent of generative AI. Is the dot-com bubble a cautionary tale for AI enthusiasts? Listen to the episode of Marketplace from NPR. Do LLMs support Wit…
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Why can’t configuration be made simple? Apple is making it easier for users to repair their iPhones with used parts. Texas is swapping human graders for AI. Automattic (owner of WordPress) is acquiring Beeper for $125M. Silicon Valley or not, San Francisco’s train system still uses floppy disks. But don’t worry, an upgrade is coming—in 2030. Shouto…
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Get started with MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud today. Read more from the MongoDB DevRel team at the MongoDB Developer Center. Learn more about Google’s Gemini models. Shout out to thitemple for their Lifeboat-worthy answer to In TypeScript, how do I declare a function that returns a string type array?.…
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Connect with Michael on LinkedIn. Shoutout to user1083266, who earned a Stellar Question badge with How to store image in SQLite database.由Ben Popper, Ryan Donovan, Michael Geden
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ICYMI: A backdoor in XZ, a popular open-source compression utility, highlights the risks of relying on open-source software maintained by small teams. Read more about the cyberattack here. Apple’s new LLM, Ferret, could help Siri understand the user interfaces of mobile displays, potentially expanding the capabilities of Apple’s digital assistant. …
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Learn more about the potential of AI inference with OpenVINO Notebooks. Check out the previous podcast with Intel, where we talk with Raymond Lo about how hardware and software work together with AI. Connect with Ria on LinkedIn or GitHub. Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Kevin, who showed what they know about TypeError; Must use key word argument…
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A developer discovered a backdoor in XZ, a popular open-source compression utility. Read more about the cyberattack here. A Microsoft technical report pinpoints 54 attributes of great software engineers. A new report from The Economist lays out how AI is changing drug development. Are you sick of hearing about AI? What topics or technologies would …
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You can find Jessica on LinkedIn. We've published several posts, including this most recent one, about our attempt to shape an ethical approach to combining our community of knowledge and today's AI systems. Check out this blog post that details some of the work we did to build our data platform. Congrats to macfij on your lifeboat badge for answer…
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DBRX, an open, general-purpose LLM created by Databricks, reportedly outperforms GPT-3.5 and is competitive with Gemini 1.0 Pro. Recent research found that large, complex LLMs use a simple mechanism to retrieve stored knowledge in response to a user prompt. These mechanisms can help researchers reveal what the model knows and potentially even corre…
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Small nations like Anguilla (.ai) and Tuvalu (.tv) are benefiting from their coveted domain names. The US government is suing Apple for violation of antitrust laws, which could have a huge impact on devs, end users, and the whole ecosystem. Reddit went public last week despite not being profitable since its launch in 2005. How can you give feedback…
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To learn more about the signs that indicate you may be paying more for your cloud computing that you should, check out DoIT’s seven red flags guide. We’ve spoken with DoiT on the podcast before about LLM hallucinations and the security threats that LLMs open. DoiT’s sales pitch is simple: they provide technology and expertise to clients who want to…
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Cribl is a data management platform. Check out their sandbox or explore their products. Cribl Stream is their vendor-agnostic observability pipeline. If you’re new to the term, the observability pipeline is a crucial component of the cloud-native world. Connect with Nick on LinkedIn. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Background 03:23 The Data Landsca…
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GitClear is a developer-friendly code review tool that aims to deliver higher developer satisfaction and faster releases. Check out their blog or find them on GitHub. GitClear’s research focuses on how AI code-gen tools have impacted code quality (and not in a good way). Find Bill on LinkedIn. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:30 Background of the Res…
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