The Stack Overflow Podcast

Sofy is a no-code test automation platform for mobile apps. SofySense is their OpenAI-powered AI assistant. See what they’re up to on their blog or check out their open roles . One of the biggest challenges in testing is deciding whether to use mock or live data .  Interested in reading about how Stack Overflow is building up our test coverage ? Syed is on LinkedIn . Congrats to Lifeboat badge win...

CodiumAI plugs into your IDE and suggests meaningful test suites as you code. See what they’re up to on their blog or scope out their open roles . You can also follow them on Twitter . Connect with Kyle on Linked , Twitter , or GitHub . Connect with Itamar on LinkedIn . Today’s Lifeboat badge is awarded to Héctor M. for answering Convert a string to a Boolean in C# . Thanks for spreading some know...

Interested in trying Duet? You can get on the waitlist here . You can learn more about tuning and deploying your own version of Google’s foundation models in their Generative AI studio . If tuning your own model sounds overwhelming, you can head to Model Garden , where a wide selection of open-source and third-party models are available to try. Marcos is on LinkedIn . See Privacy Policy at https:/...

Jim is a pioneering software developer who was one of 17 original signatories to the Agile Manifesto .  His first engineering job was on a little NASA program you may have heard of: Project Apollo . His latest book is Wild West to Agile: Adventures in software development evolution and revolution ; get your copy here . Find Jim on LinkedIn or his website . Today’s Lifeboat badge winner is nCod3d f...

Our guests today are Christopher Thielen , product manager for languages and frameworks at Apple, and Josh Shaffer , a Senior Director of Software at Apple with a focus on Swift frameworks.  We discuss the introduction of Swift Macros , improving widgets with App Intents , and some of the new paradigms for crafting apps in visionOS . If you want to get the full picture of all the updates Apple ann...

MosaicML is a platform for training and deploying large AI models at scale. Explore their docs , check out their blog , and keep an eye on their open roles . Jonathan Frankle is the Chief Scientist at MosaicML and an incoming Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard. Abhinav Venigalla is the NLP Architect at MosaicML. Today’s Lifeboat badge winner is singmotor for rescuing How to remove...

Rebuy is an AI-powered personalization platform. Check out their developer hub , explore case studies , or keep up with their blog . Cameron is a PhD student in computer science and member of the OptimaLab at Rice University.  Autonomous agents are AI-powered programs that can create tasks for themselves in response to a given objective. They “can create tasks for themselves, complete tasks, creat...

Joonko is an automated diversity recruiting layer named for Japanese mountain climber ​​ Junko Tabei , the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. You can learn about their talent pool , keep up with their blog , or check out their open positions . ICYMI, read our blog post about how the recent tech layoffs have had a disproportionate impact on women, people of color, and immigrants. Conne...

Angular is an open-source web framework used by millions of developers. Explore the Angular community .  Miško is currently CTO at Builder , an API-driven, drag-and-drop headless CMS with a visual editor. Explore their docs or see what they’re up to on their blog . Builder’s full-stack web framework is Qwik , which just reached 1.0 . Let Miško walk you through why Hydration is Pure Overhead . ICYM...

Pierre-Étienne’s interest in computing began with the functional programming language OCaml , created by Xavier Leroy . Before OCaml, Pierre-Étienne explains, “everyone thought functional programming was doomed to be extremely slow.” Pijul is a free, open-source distributed version control system. You can get started here . Want a GitHub-like interface? Find it here . Read the article that led to...

While Mauricio and team had to get back to bare metal, most programmers are headed in the opposite direction. It’s why MIT switched from Scheme to Python .  At Stack Overflow, we’re familiar with what happens to websites during physical failures, like hurricanes .  Connect with Mauricio on LinkedIn .  Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner  The Nail , who pinned a solid answer on the question,  if->...

Visit Dagna’s website, theMindfulDev.com , to learn more about her coaching process , which is built around understanding what fulfillment looks like for each client.  Dagna is on LinkedIn . You can also connect with Ceora on Twitter or her website . Ryan is also on Twitter , especially when there’s a good AI joke to be shared. Gold star for Lifeboat badge winner JasonHorsleyTech for rescuing the...

Simon is the founder and longtime project lead of OWASP ZAP , an integrated penetration testing tool that helps uncover vulnerabilities in web apps, including compromised authentication, sensitive data exposure, and SQL injection. ZAP is OWASP ’s most active project and the world’s most popular web app scanner.  Check out other OWASP projects here or explore ZAP’s docs . Check out our blog post on...

Learn more about Forrest on his website and check out his newsletter .  You can follow Paige on Twitter or her LinkedIn . Get on the list to try out some of the new stuff released today here . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Cloudflare offers zero-trust security and performance tools for web and SaaS apps. Cloudflare Workers allows devs to deploy serverless code globally to over 285 data centers around the world. Astro is an open-source web framework built for speed. Houston is a bot that lets you chat with their docs. Check out Confbrew , a conference session Q&A bot from Markprompt and Contenda (where Cassidy is...

Luca currently heads up product at Humanitec , a platform orchestrator that provides self-service “ golden paths ” for developers. Get up to speed (or refresh your memory) on what platform engineering involves and what an internal developer platform is . Dynamic configuration management (DCM) is a methodology for configuring compute workloads. Stop by the Platform Engineering Slack channel . Hear...

Ben and Ceora talk through some thorny issues around AI-generated music and art, explain why creators are suing AI companies for copyright infringement, and compare notes on the most amusing/alarming AI-generated content making the rounds (Pope coat, anyone?). Episode notes: Getty Images is suing the company behind AI art generator Stable Diffusion for copyright infringement, accusing the company...

Olin College of Engineering has one of the top-ranked undergrad engineering programs in the US. Its computing curriculum is a concentration within the engineering major, not a standalone major. The upshot is a liberal arts-informed course of study with fewer math and theory requirements than a typical CS degree and a greater emphasis on practical, job-ready skills like code quality, testing, and d...

Prosus , one of the world’s largest tech investors, acquired Stack Overflow in 2021. Check out the annual State of AI Report from Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth. Read our CEO’s recent post on Stack Overflow’s approach to Generative AI. Connect with Paul on LinkedIn .  Today’s Lifeboat badge winner is suvayu for their answer to How to put a big centered "Thank You" in a LaTeX slide . See Privacy Po...

Akita is a monitoring and observability platform that watches API traffic live and automatically infers endpoint structure. Jean, who comes from a family of computer scientists, earned a PhD from MIT and taught in the CS department at Carnegie Mellon University before founding Akita. Read Jean’s post on the Stack Overflow blog: Monitoring debt builds up faster than software teams can pay it off ....

A common refrain you’ll hear these days is that servers should be scaled out, easy to replace, and interchangeable—cattle, not pets. But for the ops folks who run those servers the opposite is true. You can’t just throw any of them into an incident where they may not know the stack or system and expect everything to work out. Every operator has a set of skills that they’ve built up through researc...

Alura is a Portuguese-language edtech platform where users can learn programming, backend and mobile development, data science, design and UX, DevOps, and more. They started small, grew into a bustling online program, then purchased a majority stake in FIAP , a private university in São Paulo, Brazil.   Paulo and Stack Overflow Director of Engineering Roberta Arcoverde cohost a popular Portuguese-...

Fermyon offers serverless cloud computing. Spin is their developer tool for building WebAssembly microservices and web applications; check it out on GitHub . Like past podcast guest David Hsu of Retool (and yours truly), Matt earned a degree in the humanities before deciding to prioritize his “side gig” in tech. Follow Fermyon on GitHub . Matt is on LinkedIn . Shoutout to Lifeboat badge winner kei...

Cerbos is an open-source, scalable authorization-as-a-service that aims to make implementing roles and permissions a cinch. Explore their docs or see how their customers are using Cerbos.  Stateless applications like Cerbos don’t retain data from previous activities, giving devs predictable plug-and-play functionality across cloud, hybrid, on-prem, and edge instances. Connect with Alex on LinkedIn...

If you prefer, you can read this as a Q&A article or watch the video . Kong is a cloud-native API platform. The first iteration of an API marketplace Marco and his colleagues built was Mashape . Developments like GraphQL and gRPC have become critical as the number of APIs increases over time. Find Marco on LinkedIn and Twitter . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pr...