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 this question with a great answer: Docker run hello-world not working See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy...
Aug 13, 2024•23 min•Ep. 727
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 testing engine . Our accessibility dashboard helps our internal teams and the community track the accessibility of our products: Stacks (our design sys...
Aug 09, 2024•28 min•Ep. 726
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 a Stellar Question badge by wondering How to use C++ in Go . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at http...
Aug 06, 2024•24 min•Ep. 725
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 LinkedIn and X . Shoutout to Alex Chesters , who earned a Great Question badge with How to count occurrences of an element in a Swift array? . See Pri...
Aug 02, 2024•28 min•Ep. 724
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. Stack Overflow user Serge Ballesta won a Lifeboat badge for answering What does |= mean in c++ . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Ca...
Jul 30, 2024•22 min•Ep. 723
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 winner Ebrahim Ghasemi for answering What is the structure of an application protocol data unit (APDU) command and response? See Privacy Policy at http...
Jul 26, 2024•20 min•Ep. 722
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 . Technical debt as explained by Ward Cunningham, who coined the term. Code as an asset , a conversation from Hacker News. Middleware is the “software ...
Jul 23, 2024•25 min•Ep. 721
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 framework that can do authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management. Jakarta EE , or Jakarta Enterprise Edition, is a suite...
Jul 19, 2024•26 min•Ep. 720
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 . Connect with him on LinkedIn . Read Jerry Liu’s posts on the LlamaIndex blog or connect with him on LinkedIn . See Privacy Policy at https://art19...
Jul 16, 2024•34 min•Ep. 719
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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 12, 2024•40 min•Ep. 718
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 on LinkedIn. Stack Overflow user chepner won a Lifeboat badge for answering How do I use __repr__ with multiple arguments? . See Privacy Policy at...
Jul 09, 2024•26 min•Ep. 717
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 . Pluralsight’s Developer Success Lab is a team of scientists studying how developers work, learn, and innovate. Explore more of Carol’s work on code review an...
Jul 05, 2024•24 min•Ep. 716
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? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 02, 2024•20 min•Ep. 715
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 over 1,200 stars, here . You can learn more about Khilnani on her website , GitHub , and on LinkedIn . Congrats to Stack Overflow user Kvam for earning a...
Jun 28, 2024•25 min•Ep. 714
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 the time they made a viral joke of a keyboard ! Ryan sees how things goes in cycles. A Stack Overflow job board is back ! And what do we make of the ...
Jun 25, 2024•24 min•Ep. 713
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 evaluated as simple by the system, for example, and a programmer takes weeks to finish it, then their productivity would be scored poorly. If a coder pushes c...
Jun 21, 2024•29 min•Ep. 712
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 through an ETL pipeline. You can learn more about the company’s services here . You can catch up with Cassie on LinkedIn . Congrats to Stack Overflow user ...
Jun 18, 2024•26 min•Ep. 711
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 build conversational, streaming, and chat user interfaces in JavaScript and TypeScript. You can learn more here . If you want to catch Jared posting ...
Jun 14, 2024•35 min•Ep. 710
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? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jun 11, 2024•21 min•Ep. 709
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? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jun 07, 2024•25 min•Ep. 708
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 :) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jun 04, 2024•28 min•Ep. 707
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 that managers solved by combining high-tech systems with low-wage human labor. The book shows how the burdens imposed on startups by venture capital...
May 31, 2024•28 min•Ep. 706
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 on durable execution. Replay 2024 is September 18-20 in Seattle, Washington, USA. Get your early bird tickets or submit a talk proposal! Connect wit...
May 28, 2024•22 min•Ep. 705
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? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
May 24, 2024•21 min•Ep. 704
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 Null array to empty list , a question that’s helped more than 47,000 other curious folks. Are you a software developer? Take Stack Overflow’s annual...
May 21, 2024•33 min•Ep. 703
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 to essential team knowledge. Read about why OverflowAI is a big step toward integrating GenAI offerings into knowledge communities and dig into what’s ...
May 17, 2024•32 min•Ep. 702
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 free, self-directed retreats for programmers. Learn how to apply here . PyCon US 2024 is May 15-23, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Connect with ...
May 14, 2024•25 min•Ep. 701
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. Listen to the episode . Chris offers classes and workshops for front-end developers , plus daily advice for developers with ADHD . Connect with Chris th...
May 10, 2024•29 min•Ep. 700
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 . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
May 07, 2024•26 min•Ep. 699
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? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
May 03, 2024•23 min•Ep. 698
