Tobiko Data is creating a new standard in data transformation with their Cloud and SQL integrations. You can keep up with their work by joining their Slack community . Connect with Toby on LinkedIn . Connect with Iaroslav on LinkedIn . Congrats to Stellar Answer badge winner Christian C. Salvadó, whose answer to What's a quick way to comment/uncomment lines in Vim? was saved by over 100 users....
Jun 27, 2025•29 min•Ep. 837
SPONSORED BY HEROKU Heroku is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for deploying, scaling, and managing apps. Connect with Vish on X and LinkedIn . Congrats to Populist badge winner AmaDaden for their answer to How to generate a legend with colors in PlantUML? ....
Jun 25, 2025•26 min•Ep. 836
Ryan and Ben welcome Alex Malcoci, CEO and founder of MiniProto, to talk innovations in hardware prototyping, the evolving complexities of the global supply chain, the impact of the US-China trade war on manufacturing, and how automation in production could lead to new training programs for future engineers. Episode notes: MiniProto is a US-based prototyping manufacturer revolutionizing the way we develop and interact with hardware. Connect with Alex on LinkedIn . Shoutout to an Unsung Hero of S...
Jun 24, 2025•22 min•Ep. 835
The Trust and Safety team is using aliases in this episode. Learn more about who the Community Management team is at Stack Overflow. Explore how we keep our community safe in our Code of Conduct . Congratulations to Lifeboat badge recipient Arvin Yorro , who won it for their helpful answer to the question Docker Desktop - WSL update failed ....
Jun 20, 2025•37 min•Ep. 834
Dane shares his excitement about the Model Context Protocol (MCP), exploring its potential impact on the future of technology. The discussion turns to the growing need for sustainable content monetization and fair compensation for creators in an AI-driven world, and how this connects to Cloudflare’s mission to build a better internet. The conversation also: Explores how Cloudflare leverages AI internally to enhance developer productivity and improve code quality while keeping developers as owner...
Jun 19, 2025•23 min•Ep. 833
Connect with Georges on LinkedIn and see his work on inside.java . Listen to our previous episode with Georges, a celebration of Java’s 25th anniversary. Today we’re shouting out the age-old question What is a NullPointerException, and how do I fix it? , which was answered 31 times as a community effort....
Jun 17, 2025•28 min•Ep. 832
Together AI is a platform for building with open-source and specialized multimodal models. Check out their docs . Connect with Jamie on LinkedIn . Shoutout to user aryaxt who earned a Stellar Question badge by wondering about MySQL Data - Best way to implement paging? ....
Jun 13, 2025•26 min•Ep. 831
Gemini 2.5 is DeepMind’s most advanced model yet, with strong reasoning and coding capabilities. Connect with Tulsee on LinkedIn . Connect with Logan on LinkedIn and Stack Overflow . Check out our previous episode with Logan, we discussed his unique path from coding to AI to product, the challenges of non-determinism in AI models, and surprising lessons from working at the Apple Store. Congrats to Populous badge winner Pascal MARTIN for answering the question PHP echo vs PHP short echo tags ....
Jun 10, 2025•33 min•Ep. 829
Explore how Capital One is using tech to innovate the banking experience here . Connect with Kathleen on LinkedIn and visit her blog . Shoutout to user Theraot for answering the questions How to connect a signal with extra arguments in Godot 4 , which won them a Lifeboat badge ....
Jun 06, 2025•23 min•Ep. 828
SPONSORED BY GUARDSQUARE Learn more about mobile application security and how to protect your app. Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Chitrakshi for rescuing TypeScript Error: No overload matches this call in Express route handler .
Jun 04, 2025•29 min•Ep. 827
Antithesis is an autonomous testing platform that finds bugs in your software with perfect reproducibility. Connect with Will Wilson on Linkedin . Congrats to user hannes neukermans whose question How can I do tag wrapping in Visual Studio Code? won them a Stellar Question badge . Our 2025 Developer Survey is live ! We want to know what your developer life is like!...
Jun 03, 2025•28 min•Ep. 826
Check out Shopify’s newest updates on their editions page , including Horizons and their new AI capabilities with Sidekick. Connect with Glen Coates on LinkedIn and X . Shoutout to Stellar Question badge winner nouptime for asking Converting string to byte array in C# ....
May 30, 2025•30 min•Ep. 825
The discussion also: Touches on the role, evolution, and adoption of AI agents, emphasizing their growing integration into systems, while addressing key safeguarding measures to ensure AI agents can accurately use data to reason effectively. Explores how Abnormal AI utilizes AI to detect and protect against cybersecurity threats, and how Dan and his team are leveraging AI to drive compounding productivity within their organization. Connect with Dan Shiebler on LinkedIn and learn more about Abnor...
May 29, 2025•32 min•Ep. 824
Contextual AI offers a platform for building RAG agents. Get started with their docs here . Connect with Douwe on LinkedIn . Congrats to Stack Overflow user Smrutiranjan Sahu , who earned a Stellar Question badge by asking How to define type for a function callback (as any function type, not universal any) used in a method parameter ....
May 27, 2025•32 min•Ep. 823
Jona provides an AI-powered gut biome test for clinicians and patients alike. Connect with Tyler on Twitter .
May 26, 2025•45 min•Ep. 822
Get the whole rundown of what’s new in this version of Android Developer’s Studio. Google I/O just happened, and the Android team announced a bunch of things . Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn . Congrats to Populist badge winner chudo xl for their answer to Android app stuck at "Launching on Devices" or 'device 'DEVICEID' not found' error ....
May 23, 2025•37 min•Ep. 821
DBOS Transact is a lightweight, open-source library that makes durable execution simple so you no longer need to worry about manually coding retries and recovery procedures. Connect with Jeremy on LinkedIn . Connect with Qian on LinkedIn . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Vanita L. , whose answer to What does the Swift 'mutating' keyword mean? earned them a Lifeboat badge ....
May 20, 2025•23 min•Ep. 820
The new Salesforce Developer Edition includes access to Data Cloud and Agentforce , Salesforce’s platform for building, customizing, and deploying autonomous AI agents. Developers can sign up here to start building. Connect with Christophe on LinkedIn . Instead of a badge, we have a question for you: If you are a developer who is working with AI agents, what are you building? What tools are you looking for? What problems are you interested in solving with AI tools? Send us an email at podcast@st...
May 16, 2025•29 min•Ep. 819
Dynatrace is an AI-powered observability platform. It empowers today’s AI-enabled digital enterprises to understand their systems and data so they can analyze, automate, and innovate faster. Learn more about Dynatrace’s Live Debugger . Connect with Henrik Rexed on LinkedIn or check out Is it Observable on YouTube ....
May 14, 2025•26 min•Ep. 818
watsonx.ai is an enterprise-grade AI studio. Developers can get started in the watsonx Developer Hub . We published a technical behind-the-scenes look at watsonx , as well as a Q&A on why it’s business-ready . Find Maryam on LinkedIn . Congrats to Stack Overflow user Michael Kolber , who earned a Lifeboat badge with a straightforward and effective answer to Is it possible to download a website’s entire code, HTML, CSS and JavaScript files? ....
May 13, 2025•29 min•Ep. 817
Alembic is an AI platform that helps organizations see how marketing spend connects to revenue so they can illuminate blind spots and make more informed business decisions. Connect with Abby on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user krishnan muthiah pillai earned a Lifeboat badge with a top-notch answer to How to forget a wireless network in android programmatically? ....
May 09, 2025•28 min•Ep. 816
In this episode of Leaders of Code, Dan Lines, cofounder and COO of LinearB; Ben Matthews, Senior Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow; and host Ben Popper talk about why velocity should be a diagnostic tool, not the primary goal of engineering teams. They also touch on the need for cross-disciplinary collaboration to align engineering with business objectives. They also discuss: AI's potential to automate repetitive tasks, allowing engineers to focus on more complex work. The challenges of...
May 08, 2025•31 min•Ep. 811
Orkes is a developer-first enterprise workflow orchestration platform. Explore the developer edition or dive into the docs . Before cofounding Orkes, Jeu was an architect at Uber and Netflix. Find him on LinkedIn . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Alex Stiff , whose answer to Bash - Sort a list of strings earned them a Lifeboat badge ....
May 06, 2025•30 min•Ep. 815
SambaNova makes a full-stack AI platform and an “ intelligent chip ” capable of running models of up to five trillion parameters, allowing developers to run state-of-the-art open source models without the time-consuming work of tuning and modeling. See what developers are building with the tech. Find Rodrigo on LinkedIn . This episode was recorded at HumanX in March. Next year’s event will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today !...
May 02, 2025•35 min•Ep. 814
The Geminus platform is built to automatically integrate data, physics, and computation for autonomous control of complex systems. Explore the platform or get in touch . Find Greg on LinkedIn .
Apr 29, 2025•21 min•Ep. 813
Paul Dhaliwal is the founder and CEO of CodeConductor . Priya Joseph is the AI field CEO at DDN . Lizzie Siegle is a developer advocate at Cloudflare . Erin Mikail Staples is a developer experience engineer at Galileo . This episode was recorded at HumanX last month. Next year’s event will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today !...
Apr 25, 2025•18 min•Ep. 812
They also discuss: Lloyds Banking Group's multi-year journey to drive simplification and standardization, reduce cognitive load & improve engineering efficiency, and enhance developer happiness. Challenges engineering teams face today, along with the cultural shifts in regulatory environments. Episode notes: Connect with Hilary Lanham and Tom Kelk . Visit Lloyds Banking Group to discover available job opportunities. Learn more about creating a private instance of Stack Overflow for your team...
Apr 24, 2025•24 min•Ep. 811
Dataiku orchestrates data stacks and lets you create analytics, models, and agents. Find Florian on LinkedIn . This episode was recorded at HumanX last month. Next year’s conference will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today !
Apr 22, 2025•23 min•Ep. 810
Bit lets you generate composable software simplicity, speed and quality. Connect with Laly on LinkedIn . Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner and blog contributor Charlie Martin for their answer to How does this proof, that the halting problem is undecidable, work? ....
Apr 18, 2025•24 min•Ep. 809
Kyle notes that his only experience with WebAssembly is Blazor. If you’re wondering about Blazor, we covered it on the blog in 2020 . While Michael may have been the first user to get 10,000 rep, he’s not stopping there . His current employer, neuRealities , is still in stealth mode, shhhh. Find Michael on his blog and possibly elsewhere....
Apr 16, 2025•36 min•Ep. 808