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, 2024•30 min•Ep 733•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•27 min•Ep 732•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•25 min•Ep 731•Transcript available on Metacast 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?...
Aug 23, 2024•26 min•Ep 730•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•27 min•Ep 729•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2024•31 min•Ep 728•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Aug 13, 2024•23 min•Ep 727•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ....
Aug 06, 2024•24 min•Ep 725•Transcript available on Metacast 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? ....
Aug 02, 2024•28 min•Ep 724•Transcript available on Metacast 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++ ....
Jul 30, 2024•22 min•Ep 723•Transcript available on Metacast 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?...
Jul 26, 2024•20 min•Ep 722•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ....
Jul 16, 2024•34 min•Ep 719•Transcript available on Metacast 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....
Jul 12, 2024•40 min•Ep 718•Transcript available on Metacast 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? ....
Jul 09, 2024•26 min•Ep 717•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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? ....
Jul 02, 2024•20 min•Ep 715•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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?...
Jun 11, 2024•21 min•Ep 709•Transcript available on Metacast 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?
Jun 07, 2024•25 min•Ep 708•Transcript available on Metacast 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 :)...
Jun 04, 2024•28 min•Ep 707•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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? ....
May 24, 2024•21 min•Ep 704•Transcript available on Metacast 
