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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 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.

Episodes

Sharing the power of the command line

Warp is an intelligent terminal that combines AI tools and developer resources in one interface. Zach’s hope was to give more developers access to the arcane magic of the command line. Connect with Zach on LinkedIn . If you’re a terminal user, which one is your go-to and why? Let us know at podcast@stackoverflow.com .

Mar 11, 202525 minEp 793Transcript available on Metacast

Is Postgres the best database for GenAI?

Postgres is an open-source database. EDB offers enterprise-grade features and support for Postgres from self-managed to fully-managed, cloud-based DBaaS. Find Jezz on LinkedIn . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Jonny , who won a Populist badge with their exceptional answer to quantile function for a vector of dates ....

Mar 07, 202528 minEp 792Transcript available on Metacast

How can AI perform on the edge?

Episode notes: Infineon is a global semiconductor company for power systems and IoT. You can connect with Clark and Alexander on LinkedIn. Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner hdsenevi for their answer on Unrecognized font family 'Roboto' - React Native iOS ....

Mar 05, 202527 minEp 791Transcript available on Metacast

Secure coding beyond just memory safety

Semgrep is an AppSec platform that lets devs deploy static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), and secret scans. Explore their docs . Tanya is the author of Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding and Alice and Bob Learn Application Security . She’s also written for our blog: Three layers to secure a software development organization and Continuous delivery, meet continuous security . Secure coding might be an issue of national security . Follow Tanya on LinkedIn ...

Mar 04, 202534 minEp 790Transcript available on Metacast

“Translation is the tip of the iceberg”: A deep dive into specialty models

Smartling is an enterprise translation platform that includes AI-powered translation solutions. Connect with Olga on LinkedIn . Kudos to Stack Overflow user Suleka_28 , who earned a Populist badge by explaining how to convert logits to probability in binary classification in tensorflow ....

Feb 28, 202531 minEp 789Transcript available on Metacast

Writing tests with AI, but not LLMs

Diffblue Cover is an AI agent for testing complex Java code at scale. Check out their docs to get started automating unit tests today. This article will help you understand the difference between Diffblue Cover and Copilot. Find Animesh on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user Keet Sugathadasa earned a Populist badge by answering a question in the CI/CD Collective : Gitlab CI CD variable are not getting injected while running gitlab pipeline ....

Feb 25, 202542 minEp 788Transcript available on Metacast

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....

Feb 21, 202535 minEp 787Transcript available on Metacast

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 ....

Feb 18, 202526 minEp 785Transcript available on Metacast

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 ....

Feb 14, 202530 minEp 784Transcript available on Metacast

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 ....

Feb 12, 202522 minEp 783Transcript available on Metacast

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?...

Feb 07, 202535 minEp 781Transcript available on Metacast

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 ....

Feb 04, 202523 minEp 780Transcript available on Metacast

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 779Transcript available on Metacast

“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 ....

Jan 28, 202535 minEp 778Transcript available on Metacast

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 ....

Jan 24, 202533 minEp 777Transcript available on Metacast

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 ....

Jan 22, 202537 minEp 776Transcript available on Metacast

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? ....

Jan 17, 202527 minEp 775Transcript available on Metacast

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...

Jan 14, 202523 minEp 774Transcript available on Metacast

“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...

Jan 10, 202529 minEp 773Transcript available on Metacast

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 ....

Jan 08, 202527 minEp 772Transcript available on Metacast

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 ....

Jan 07, 202530 minEp 771Transcript available on Metacast

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 ....

Jan 03, 202523 minEp 770Transcript available on Metacast

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 769Transcript available on Metacast

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 768Transcript available on Metacast

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 767Transcript available on Metacast

“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 ....

Dec 20, 202426 minEp 766Transcript available on Metacast

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 765Transcript available on Metacast

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 764Transcript available on Metacast
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