The Stack Overflow Podcast

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 ....

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 updat...

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 tha...

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? .  Se...

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 as...

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://a...

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...

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...

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 Gr...

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 Califo...

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...

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...

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: Doc...

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...

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...

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 e...

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 b...

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 s...

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, w...

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, autho...

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’...

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://a...

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...

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 scientis...

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? .  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priva...