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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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One quality every engineering manager should have? Empathy.

CLEAR is an identity company trying to take the friction out of air travel (such as with TSA PreCheck , available through CLEAR), stadium events, and other experiences that require security screening. Find Caitlin on LinkedIn . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Patrick Pijnappel , who earned a Populist badge with their answer to Redirect all output to file using Bash on Linux? . It’s helped 230,000 people and counting. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice a...

Feb 21, 202535 minEp. 787

WBIT #4: Using GIS to understand the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to

Forerunner provides a platform for floodplain management. Do you also have gnarly caching issues? Check out an overview of how we use caching at Stack Overflow . If you want to connect with Lauren, head over to her LinkedIn page. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Feb 19, 202532 minEp. 786

Why is it so hard for companies to protect your privacy?

Transcend is a data privacy and governance platform. See what they’re up to on their blog or dive into their docs . Find Minh on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user ivanavitdev earned a Populist badge with their exceptionally thoughtful answer to How to use toSorted() method in TypeScript . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Feb 18, 202526 minEp. 785

Solving the data doom loop

Hasura is a GraphQL API platform. Get started exploring here . Read Ken’s article on the data doom loop . Find Ken on LinkedIn . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user liquorvicar , who earned a Lifeboat badge with an exemplary answer to Checking value in an array inside one SQL query with WHERE clause . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Feb 14, 202530 minEp. 784

A distributed database that can withstand a meteor strike

OceanBase is an open-source distributed database. Check it out on GitHub . For more information, follow OceanBase on LinkedIn , X , and YouTube . To connect with Charlie Yang, find him on LinkedIn . Got questions about OceanBase? Join the discussion here on Stack Overflow . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Feb 12, 202522 minEp. 783

“In the short term, more chaos”: What’s next for API design

Speakeasy builds API tooling for developers. Find Sagar on LinkedIn . Kudos to Stack Overflow user Bergi , who earned a Lifeboat badge with an exemplary answer to What is the Universal Module Definition (UMD)? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Feb 11, 202529 minEp. 782

Why build your own vector DB? To process 25,000 images per second

Verkada is a cloud-based video security company. Back in the innocent days of 2021, we spoke with a company that makes smart dashcams . See how far video and image processing has come. Congrats to Reg for earning a Lifeboat badge for their answer on What is the difference between JSP and Spring? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Feb 07, 202535 minEp. 781

Will the web ever be the primary delivery system for 3D games?

Tres.js is an open-source 3D engine for Vue built on Three.js . Find Jaime on LinkedIn or GitHub or explore his creative lab . Push is a browser-based identity security platform that detects and blocks identity attacks, enforces security controls, and monitors employee logins to cloud accounts. Shoutout to Stack Overflow user zwol , who earned a Lifeboat badge with an excellent answer to How would you write the equivalent of this C++ loop in Rust . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy...

Feb 04, 202523 minEp. 780

Feature flags: Theory meets reality

Schematic offers SDKs for packaging, pricing, and entitlements. Check out Ben’s article on feature flags . Listen to Bill Tarr from AWS and Brian Rinaldi (then at LaunchDarkly and now at Localstack) talk about the opportunity to extend feature flags beyond deployment and rollout and into entitlement management and monetization. Find Fynn on LinkedIn . Find Ben on LinkedIn . feature flags, software development, technical debt, business strategy, product management, feature management, DevOps, sof...

Jan 31, 202534 minEp. 779

“Countries are coming online tomorrow, whole countries”

ClickUp is a work and chat platform designed to streamline workflows and make people more productive. You can find RJ on LinkedIn or explore his posts on the ClickUp blog . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Hemant Singh , who helped the community understand pause vs stop in docker . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Jan 28, 202535 minEp. 778

How the internet changed in 2024

Check out Cloudflare’s 2024 Year in Review . Read John’s posts on the Cloudflare blog or connect with him on LinkedIn . Shoutout to user Timo Kähkönen for providing knowledge-seekers with a cheap algorithm to find measure of angle between vectors . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Jan 24, 202533 minEp. 777

WBIT#3: Can good team dynamics make Agile obsolete?

ApartmentAdvisor helps renters find apartments and navigate more complicated markets. What were the people who wrote the Agile Manifesto thinking? Listen to our podcast with original signatory Jim Highsmith and find out. You think the tech is impressive? Wes played the first “perfect” game of Donkey Kong . Find Wes on GitHub , LinkedIn , Twitter , or his website . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Jan 22, 202537 minEp. 776

The developer skill you might be neglecting

Find Geoffrey (Jef) Huck on LinkedIn or check out his website . Stack Overflow user Matt earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining What is the difference between Tomcat containers and Docker containers? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Jan 17, 202527 minEp. 775

Robots building robots in a robotic factory

Postman is an API development platform that lets developers prototype, document, test, and demo all their APIs in one place. Postman’s cofounder and CEO recently wrote about the rise of agentic AI . Find Sterling on LinkedIn . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Knossos , who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering What is the difference between TextView and TextViewCompat . APIs, AI, GraphQL, REST, gRPC, API-first, Sterling Chin, Postman, technology, software development See Privacy Policy at https://...

Jan 14, 202523 minEp. 774

“Data is the key”: Twilio’s Head of R&D on the need for good data

Twilio , a communication platform as a service (CPaaS), allows developers to build voice, video, and messaging capabilities into their apps. Devs can get started with their docs . Find Inbal on LinkedIn . Kudos to Stack Overflow user Wesos de Queso for explaining how to Prevent a toggle group from not having a toggle selected - Java FX . AI, Twilio, Inbal Shani, machine learning, LLM, developer productivity, responsible AI, tech stack, customer engagement, conversational AI See Privacy Policy at...

Jan 10, 202529 minEp. 773

Failing fast at scale: Rapid prototyping at Intuit

To learn more about technology or careers at Intuit, visit intuit.com/technology . Want to read more about rapid prototyping at Intuit ? To connect with Himanshu, find him on LinkedIn . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Jan 08, 202527 minEp. 772

WBIT #2: Memories of persistence and the state of state

Polly is an embedded insurance company, which means you buy the insurance for a car or house at the same time as you buy the car or house itself. Redux is a state management library for JavaScript. We’ve talked about the productivity drains that meetings can have previously on the blog. Connect with Jon on LinkedIn . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Jan 07, 202530 minEp. 771

How AI apps are like Google Search

Jetify gives developers a cloud environment for building AI powered applications. Check out their blog or explore Jetify Cloud , a suite of managed services designed to make software development easier for teams. Daniel is on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user Dhaval Simaria earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining the Difference between pushing a docker image and installing helm image . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-se...

Jan 03, 202523 minEp. 770

How developers (really) used AI coding tools in 2024

In this episode: Whether AI coding tools are making your code worse, how AI can improve pull requests, building software through prompt engineering, using AI to write cleaner code, and what we can expect from this technology in 2025 and beyond. Listen to the full versions: Is AI making your code worse? - Stack Overflow This startup uses a team of AI agents to write and review their pull requests - Stack Overflow Meet the AI-native developers who build software through prompt engineering - Stack ...

Dec 31, 202431 minEp. 769

Balancing business and open source in 2024

In this episode: The birth of React, how the world’s biggest open-source business is leveraging LLMs, the creator of Jenkins on CI/CD, the creator of Node.js and Deno on open-source evolution, and an open-source development paradigm. Listen to the full versions: How a creator of React is rethinking IDEs - Stack Overflow The world’s largest open-source business has plans for enhancing LLMs - Stack Overflow The creator of Jenkins discusses CI/CD and balancing business with open source - Stack Over...

Dec 27, 202434 minEp. 768

How developer jobs (and the job market) changed in 2024

In this episode: Why developers need to upskill faster than ever, the relationship between stock prices and layoffs, how the job market for developers has changed, and the evolution of engineering roles post-GenAI. Listen to the full versions: The half-life of developer skills is shrinking rapidly - Stack Overflow AI isn't putting tech workers out of jobs, the stock price is - Stack Overflow The reverse mullet model of software engineering - Stack Overflow Say goodbye to "junior" engineering rol...

Dec 24, 202433 minEp. 767

“I wanted to play with computers”: a chat with a new Stack Overflow engineer

Adora is the author of Cloud Engineering for Beginners , Beginning Azure DevOps , and Confident Cloud . She’s also the founder and executive director of NexaScale , an ed-tech non profit that offers educational support and simulated work experiences for entry-level software engineers, designers, and product managers. Check out their programs . Find Adora on LinkedIn or through her website . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy...

Dec 20, 202426 minEp. 766

Legal advice from an AI is illegal

Alexi leverages AI to streamline litigation workflows and speed up research, with an eye to giving lawyers more time and energy to devote to client strategy and support. Find Mark on LinkedIn . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user ycr for dropping some knowledge in our CI/CD Collective : How to get the BUILD_USER in Jenkins when a human rebuilds a job triggered by timer? . Here’s a quick preview of the episode: “The founding thesis was, let’s try and build an AI that knows the law. And if we do that,...

Dec 17, 202439 minEp. 765

AI agents that help doctors get paid

Thoughtful AI provides AI agents that help revenue cycle management (RCM) teams get providers their money from insurance companies. Does AI have a better bedside manner than doctors? One study suggest they do. Connect with Dan on X and LinkedIn . Congrats to Populist badge winner Marcio Mazzucato for doing the accepted answer one better on How do I emulate a 403 error page ?. Want a preview? Here are some great quotes from this episode: “ The human transformation of getting off of this computer ...

Dec 13, 202428 minEp. 764

What security teams need to understand about developers

NightVision offers web and API security testing tools built to integrate with developers’ established workflows. NightVision identifies issues by precise area(s) of code, so devs don’t have to chase down and validate vulnerability reports, a process that eats up precious engineering resources. Get started with their docs . Connect with Kinnaird on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user Cecil Curry earned a Populist badge with their exceptionally thoughtful answer to In Python how can one tell if a modul...

Dec 10, 202422 minEp. 763

From bugs to performance to perfection: pushing code quality in mobile apps

Instabug helps developers monitor, prioritize, and debug performance and stability issues throughout the mobile app development lifecycle. Get started with their docs . Connect with Kenny on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user itoctopus earned a Populist badge by explaining how to Break huge URLs so they don't overflow . Some great excerpts from today’s episode: On why they built a lean, mean SDK: “Nowadays mobile developers spend a lot of time thinking about SDK bloat and how much they're taxing the...

Dec 06, 202425 minEp. 762

Even high-quality code can lead to tech debt

Tabnine is an AI code assistant that offers AI tools for code generation, testing, and code review. Eran was previously a researcher at IBM, where he worked on IBM Watson . Connect with Eran on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user Anders earned a Populist badge with their first-class answer to How to detect the current screen resolution? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Dec 03, 202429 minEp. 761

Your docs are your infrastructure

Fabrizio is now the lead documentation engineer Tinybird , a data platform for user-facing analytics. Get started with their docs or explore their blog . Find Fabrizio’s blog here . Some reading suggestions: What docs as code really means How I'm using AI as a technical writer Why I became a Documentation Engineer (and what that even means) Find Fabrizio on LinkedIn or GitHub . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-...

Nov 26, 202423 minEp. 760

The app that fights for your data privacy rights

Sukhi is a senior product manager for Permission Slip by Consumer Reports, an app to help people exercise their digital data privacy rights. Consumer Reports is a nonprofit organization with a long history of protecting consumers’ rights and advocating for changes that make them safer. Connect with Sukhi on LinkedIn or via her website . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Martijn Pieters , who’s earned over a million reputation by delivering wisdom to questions like Runtime of python's if substring ...

Nov 22, 202426 minEp. 759

We'll Be In Touch: A New Podcast From Stack Overflow!

Hello everyone and welcome to the very first episode of We'll Be in Touch , a new podcast series from Stack Overflow. This show will explore the world of job interviews, career development, and software engineering. Each episode, we'll sit down with folks working in software development to hear their stories, dive into their latest projects, learn about tricky bugs they've tackled, and discuss the tricks they use to keep up with all the latest languages and frameworks. Your host, Kyle Mitofsky, ...

Nov 21, 202433 minEp. 758
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