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The Stack Overflow Podcast

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For more than a dozen years, the Stack Overflow Podcast has been exploring what it means to be a developer and how the art and practice of software programming is changing our world. From Rails to React, from Java to Node.js, we host important conversations and fascinating guests that will help you understand how technology is made and where it’s headed. Hosted by Ben Popper, Cassidy Williams, and Ceora Ford, the Stack Overflow Podcast is your home for all things code.
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The open-source ecosystem built to reduce tech debt

Moderne is an open-source company building automated source code transformations for framework migrations, vulnerability patches, and API migrations. Explore the platform here . OpenRewrite is a community-driven open source project that consists of an auto-refactoring engine that runs prepackaged refactoring recipes for common framework migrations, security fixes, and stylistic consistency tasks. Connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn . Props to Stack Overflow user Benjamin Atkin , who earned a Popul...

Nov 19, 202427 minEp. 757

Meet the guy responsible for building the Call of Duty game engine

Chris works at Sledgehammer Games (a division of Activision), which develops titles in the Call of Duty franchise. Explore their open roles here . Want to see Chris’s engine in action? Check out COD: Modern Warfare III . Connect with Chris on LinkedIn . Kudos to Stack Overflow user teh.fonsi , who earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining How to execute 1 command x times in java . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-m...

Nov 15, 202422 minEp. 756

A student of Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Jeff Dean explains where AI is headed

Clarifai is a developer-friendly AI workflow orchestration platform built to help devs integrate AI into technical workflows and customer experiences. We’ve written about best practices for integrating AI tools into your workflows . Connect with Matt on LinkedIn or via his website . You can also read his posts on the Clarifai blog. Well-deserved congrats to Stack Overflow user Jay Wick , who earned a Populist badge by explaining how to Get image preview before uploading in React . See Privacy Po...

Nov 12, 202435 minEp. 755

One of the world’s biggest web scrapers has some thoughts on data ownership

Or Lenchner is the CEO of Bright Data , a web data platform that offers ready-made datasets, proxy networks, and AI-powered web scrapers. Developers can get started with their docs here . ICYMI, read our blog post about the knowledge-as-a-service business model and how it will guide the future of our paid platform. AI answers alone aren’t knowledge. Connect with Or on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user guizo earned a Populist badge by explaining How can I minify JSON in a shell script? . See Privacy...

Nov 08, 202434 minEp. 754

How Google is helping developers get better answers from AI

Logan previously worked at OpenAI, where he led developer relations. He’s now a senior product manager for Google AI Studio , the fastest way for devs to get started with the Gemini API . Logan’s team just rolled out Grounding with Google Search, a feature built to help developers get fresher, more accurate responses from the Gemini models aided by Google Search. Learn more here . Connect with Logan on LinkedIn . Props to Stack Overflow user Jonik , who earned a Populist badge by explaining How ...

Nov 05, 202426 minEp. 753

How a creator of React is rethinking IDEs

Want to learn more about the early days of React? React.js: The Documentary gives you the full story from the perspective of the developers who created it. Vercel is a native Next.js platform. v0 aims to democratize software development for non-technical users. Check it out here . Listen to our recent conversation with Vercel’s VP of AI . Connect with Tom on LinkedIn or X . Kudos to Stack Overflow user Sodruldeen Mustapha , who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How to remove the environment v...

Nov 01, 202425 minEp. 752

Life in the Fastlane: SDK tools built with developers in mind

Fastlane by PayPal is an accelerated guest checkout experience. Visit the Fastlane Resource Center for Developers to get started. You can find Sunny Patel on LinkedIn and on GitHub . Find Kyle Prinsloo on X and on LinkedIn . Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner M.M who provided an answer to What does the "Expected '(' for function-style cast or type construction" error mean? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-inf...

Oct 30, 202431 minEp. 751

How can you get your kids into coding? We asked an 8-year-old app builder.

Watch Fay build a Harry Potter-themed chatbot with an assist from AI. Cursor is the AI code editor Fay’s using. Get started with their docs . Connect with Ricky on LinkedIn or X . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Mahendra Kulkarni , who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How do I get current rowindex of a table using JavaScript? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Oct 29, 202423 minEp. 750

Tragedy of the (data) commons

The Data Provenance Initiative is a collective of volunteer AI researchers from around the world. They conduct large-scale audits of the massive datasets that power state-of-the-art AI models with a goal of mapping the landscape of AI training data to improve transparency, documentation, and informed use of data. Their Explorer tool allows users to filter and analyze the training datasets typically used by large language models. Shayne and Robert are the authors of a new study called Consent in ...

Oct 25, 202431 minEp. 749

The new pair programming: an AI agent that cleans your code as you write

Tariq Shaukat, the former president of Google Cloud and Bumble, is the CEO of Sonar. Follow him on LinkedIn . Sonar offers code quality and security solutions that help developers write clean code and remediate existing code organically. Their product SonarQube helps devs ensure the quality and security of AI-generated code. Watch Olivier Gaudin, founder of Sonar, explain why clean code is the foundation for well-functioning dev teams . Stack Overflow user Ogglas earned a Populist badge by expla...

Oct 22, 202429 minEp. 748

How API security is evolving for the GenAI era

Solo.io provides API gateway, service mesh, and internal developer portal solutions. Follow Solo.io on X or LinkedIn or dig into the docs . Want to brush up on RAG? Our Guide to AI walks you through the concept and includes a practical example. Or check out one expert’s practical tips for RAG on our blog. Connect with Keith on LinkedIn . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user MrSimpleMind : their helpful answer to the question – How to run jq from gitbash in windows? – has been viewed by more than 213,...

Oct 18, 202424 minEp. 747

The team behind Unity 6 explains the new features aimed at helping developers

Ryan is a VP of Product focused on the Unity Engine and AI services. You can find him on LinkedIn and X . Martin Best is a Principal Product Architect working on the Unity Engine. You can find him on LinkedIn . To learn more about Unity 6, please visit their website . Show some love to this question and Stack Overflow user NPatch, who provided an accepted answer to the question: Why is my character floating in the air when death animation is played in Unity ? See Privacy Policy at https://art19....

Oct 16, 202420 minEp. 746

What launching rockets taught this CTO about hardware observability

Sift is an end-to-end observability stack for safety-critical hardware development. See what they’re up to on their blog . We talked to SpaceX about their testing processes way back in 2021. Connect with Austin on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user TheScholar earned a Great Question badge by wondering How to create a new deep copy (clone) of a List? , a question that’s helped more than 200,000 people. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/...

Oct 15, 202426 minEp. 745

Is this the real life? Training autonomous cars with simulations

Helm.ai licenses AI software throughout the L2-L4 autonomous driving stack, which includes perception, intent modeling, path planning, and vehicle control. They’re hiring ! Connect with Vlad on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user user3330840 won a Lifeboat badge for their answer to My commits appear as another user in GitHub? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Oct 11, 202421 minEp. 744

Think you don’t need observability? Think again

Memento is a real-time data platform designed to help developers ship better products faster. Explore the platform here or get started in the docs . Connect with Daniela on LinkedIn and follow Momento on X . Stack Overflow user Simon Juhl won a Lifeboat badge for dropping some knowledge on HTMLCSS change Date input highlight color . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Oct 08, 202429 minEp. 743

Meet the AI native developers who build software through prompt engineering

You can find Crystal on LinkedIn . You can learn more about FSH Tech here. Congrats to Stack OVerflow user David Conrad, who earned a lifeboat badge for answering the question: How do I create a map with key and value in one line in Java? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Oct 04, 202421 minEp. 742

A developer works to balance the data center boom with his climate change battle

You can find David on LinkedIn . You can learn more about Arcjet here. You can subscribe to to the console.dev newsletter and podcast here. Congrats to Stack Overflow user Greg Hewgill who earned a Populist badge for his answer to the question: What’s a good tool to determine the lowest version of Python required? Greg is getting close to the magic one million rep mark! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ...

Oct 01, 202427 minEp. 741

This dev went from coding at Meta, to search at Google, to investing in AI with Anthropic

You can find Deedy on Twitter and LinkedIn . You can learn more about the Anthology Fund here . You can learn more about Menlo Ventures here . Congrats to Stack Overflow users Bobince for earning a Populist badge with their answer to the question: What does sorting mean in non-alphabetic languages? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Sep 27, 202425 minEp. 740

He sold his first company for billions. Now he’s building a better developer experience.

Jyoti is a cofounder and CEO of Harness , a software delivery platform meant to modernize your DevOps tooling and take the friction out of CI/CD. Devs can get started with the developer portal . In addition to Harness, Jyoti is a cofounder and entrepreneur partner at Unusual Ventures , which specializes in working with early-stage startups (pre-seed to Series A). Connect with Jyoti on LinkedIn . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user kukuh , who won a Lifeboat badge for dishing out some wisdom on Andro...

Sep 24, 202427 minEp. 739

How to detect errors in AI-generated code

Read the paper Gias coauthored about incorrectness in AI-generated code or explore more of his research . You can connect with Gias via his website . We previously covered research on Stack Overflow code snippets that Gias was involved in and spoke to his team about deriving sentiment from SO comments . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Adhi Ardiansyah for an excellent explanation of How to update a GitHub access token via command line . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californ...

Sep 20, 202426 minEp. 738

Looking under the hood of multimodal AI

Multimodal AI combines different modalities—audio, video, text, etc.—to enable more humanlike engagement and higher-quality responses from the AI model. WebRTC is a free, open-source project that allows developers to add real-time communication capabilities that work on top of an open standard to their applications. It supports video, voice, and generic data. LiveKit is an open-source project that provides scalable, multi-user conferencing based on WebRTC. It’s designed to provide everything dev...

Sep 17, 202429 minEp. 737

The world’s largest open-source business has plans for enhancing LLMs

Red Hat Enterprise Linux may be the world’s largest open-source software business. You can dive into the docs here . Created by IBM and Red Hat, InstructLab is an open-source project for enhancing LLMs. Learn more here or join the community on GitHub . Connect with Scott on LinkedIn . User AffluentOwl earned a Great Question badge by wondering How to force JavaScript to deep copy a string? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privac...

Sep 13, 202429 minEp. 736

The evolution of full stack engineers

From her early days coding on a TI-84 calculator, to working as an engineer at IBM, to pivoting over to her new role in DevRel, speaking, and community, Mrina has seen the world of coding from many angles. You can follow her on Twitter here and on LinkedIn here . You can learn more about CK editor here and TinyMCE here . Congrats to Stack Overflow user NYI for earning a great question badge by asking: How do I convert a bare git repository into a normal one (in-place)? See Privacy Policy at http...

Sep 10, 202424 minEp. 735

The creator of Jenkins discusses CI/CD and balancing business with open source

You can learn more about Kohsuke on his website . You can read more about Jenkins here . You can read more about Cloudbees here . Shout to Mossmyr for contributing a question that's now part of our CI/CD Collective: Is there a way to call a Jenkins Shared Library method from another Jenkins Shared Library? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Sep 06, 202425 minEp. 734

At scale, anything that could fail definitely will

Pradeep talks about building at global scale and preparing for inevitable system failures. He talks about extra layers of security, including viewing your own VMs as untrustworthy. And he lays out where he thinks the world of cloud computing is headed as GenAI becomes a bigger piece of many company’s tech stack. You can find Pradeep on LinkedIn . He also writes a blog and hosts a podcast over at Oracle First Principles . Congrats to Stack Overflow user shantanu, who earned a Great Question badge...

Sep 03, 202430 minEp. 733

Mobile Observability: monitoring performance through cracked screens, old batteries, and crappy Wi-Fi

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 mobile observability. You can join that by going to embrace.io as well. Congrats to Stack Overflow user Cottentail for earning an Illuminator badge , aw...

Aug 30, 202427 minEp. 732

Where does Postgres fit in a world of GenAI and vector databases?

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 Stack Overflow user Haymaker for earning a Great Question badge. They asked: How Can I Override the Default SQLConnection Timeout ? Nearly 250,000 o...

Aug 27, 202425 minEp. 731

From PHP to JavaScript to Kubernetes: how backend engineering evolved

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? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Aug 23, 202426 minEp. 730

Ryan Dahl explains why Deno had to evolve with version 2.0

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 here . Congrats to Hugo G, who earned a Great Answer Badge for his input on the following question: How can I declare and use Boolean variables in...

Aug 20, 202427 minEp. 729

Battling ticket bots and untangling taxes at the frontiers of e-commerce

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 solving it at Shopify. There is a direct bridge there to a performance conversation as well: moving untrusted scripts off the main thread, sandboxing UI ...

Aug 16, 202431 minEp. 728
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