The Stack Overflow Podcast

Sana automates user enrollment, training reminders, and other manual/admin tasks associated with onboarding and learning. Sana AI , their AI assistant, is trained on a company’s data so employees can self-serve the knowledge they need. On a related note, listen to our interview with Gašper Beguš , director of the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab, about his research into how LLMs and humans acqu...

SPONSORED BY CHRONOSPHERE Episode notes: Chronosphere is introducing Lens , a cloud-native observability tool to view data flows between services.  At Uber, Rob created M3 , an open-source metrics engine compatible with Prometheus.   Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner, ralf htp , for their answer to How to read an image in Python OpenCV .  If you want to meet Rob and the Chronosphere team, they’ll...

ICYMI, listen to part one of this conversation. Craig is the cofounder and CEO of Stacklok , which helps developers and open-source communities build safer software, secure the supply chain, and choose safer dependencies. Stacklok’s free-to-use service, Trusty , employs a statistical analysis of author/repo activity and a package’s source of origin to assess its trustworthiness. Craig cofounded th...

Stacklok helps developers and open-source communities build safer software, secure the supply chain, and choose safer dependencies. Trusty is their free-to-use service that employs a statistical analysis of author/repo activity and a package’s source of origin to assess its trustworthiness. Craig cofounded the Kubernetes project, an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and manage...

Sleuth helps engineering teams systematically improve efficiency by tracking speed and release quality, preventing slowdowns and bottlenecks, and removing toil and unnecessary friction. Try it for free or see how teams are using Sleuth . Interested in the automations they offer for teams, check out their public marketplace . Dylan was an original architect on JIRA , so he’s not exactly new to issu...

Tomasz is a general partner at Theory Ventures , a venture capital firm focused on early-stage software companies. He coauthored the book Winning with Data , a deep dive into how big data has changed business best practices and organizational culture. Find Tomasz’s writing here . Follow Tomasz on LinkedIn or Twitter.com . In honor of Tomasz’s early career, we’re shouting out Johnny Hujol ’s answer...

Giamir is the tech lead for Stacks , Stack Overflow’s design system. Svelte is a tool for building web apps. Delve into their docs or, if you’re brand-new to Svelte, start with this interactive tutorial . More than 90,000 devs responded to our 2023 Developer Survey where Svelte was ranked the second-most admired web framework .   Connect with Giamir via his website or LinkedIn .  Today we’re shout...

Alex and cofounder/CTO Paul Querna started ConductorOne because they saw that traditional identity governance (IGA) and privileged access management (PAM) needed to be rethought for cloud-forward companies. Before he cofounded Conductor One, Alev Bovee was a senior director of product management for zero trust and security at Okta . Read Ben’s article about how Computers are learning to decode the...

Find out why others have joined Shell .  Wondering what it’s like to be a developer at one of the world’s biggest energy companies? They’re hiring . Behavior-driven development is a conceptual approach to software development that calls for collaboration and alignment between developers, testers, and domain experts. One of the new technologies James and Tristan helped introduce at Shell is Kafka ,...

At Netlify Compose 2023, Biilmann announced their new composable web platform .  This isn’t Netlify’s first rodeo—we talked to them for episodes 588 and 456 . You can find Matt Biilmann on X or LinkedIn (and perhaps elsewhere).  Today’s shoutout goes to Dick Lucas who asked a topical question, How to prevent Netlify from treating warnings as errors because process.env. CI = true? , viewed by over...

The company says v0 is intended to author the first draft of your site or app, then help you iterate quickly. It won't mean the end of junior web developers, says Lee, as a polished final draft still requires a human touch. And it's not a low code no code approach, as the system allows you to switch easily between the GenAI approach and the actual code. You can learn more about v0 here and head ov...

Listen to our previous episodes with Eliot here and here . Viam is a software platform for building, monitoring, and managing data from smart machines, including industrial robots, autonomous vehicles, smart home appliances, and IoT devices. Get an overview of the Viam platform or dig into their docs . Connect with Eliot on LinkedIn . Three cheers for Stack Overflow user mattl , who won a Great Qu...

CodeWhisperer is an AI coding companion trained on Amazon and open-source code that gives you coding suggestions in real time.  In addition to being general manager for CodeWhisperer, Doug is also the GM for Amazon CodeGuru Security , which uses machine learning to detect security policy violations and vulnerabilities.  Connect with Doug on LinkedIn . Asked and answered: user Manodnya B won a Life...

Clockwise is a time orchestration platform that optimizes schedules to create more time in your day. Clockwise AI , their new GPT-powered scheduling assistant, is launching in beta. Join the waitlist here to get early access. (They’re also hiring !) Ryan wrote a recent article about whether meetings are making developers less productive. Cal Newport’s instant classic Deep Work is about learning to...

California is trying to transform how math is taught. How’s that going? Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for work that allows scientists to see how electrons move by mapping their positions in an atom. Learn more here and here . As Ben says, speaking of things that are difficult to observe and don’t make a lot of sense, FTX founder Sam Bankman-...

If you want to hear more of her work, check out Alexandra’s Instagram .  She uses Tidal Cycles and Supercollider to make algorithms that get people to dance.  Interested in algoraves? You may be able to find one near you or run your own.  Check out Alexandra in her ad for Logitech , then check out her favorite keyboard .  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notic...

Ben is watching AI Explained , a YouTube channel that covers the latest AI developments and their implications.  Read Ryan’s article ​​ Do large language models know what they are talking about? . Is language really unique to humans? New research suggests maybe not. Not for the first time, Ryan recommends the work of Noam Chomsky: Why Only Us: Language and Evolution , an evolutionary account of la...

pgnanalyze helps users deliver consistent PostgreSQL performance and availability at any scale. Get started with a free trial or explore their docs . You can also find them on YouTube, where Lukas posts a weekly show called 5mins of Postgres . Lukas was a founding engineer of Citus Data . Citus is an open-source extension to PostgreSQL that was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Find them on GitHub...

Check out Luyang’s work at his website or in this Youtube playlist .  To make these animations, Luyang uses Processing , a 20-year-old language that started out as a visual way to teach programming but evolved into a professional development tool.  Logitech selected Luyang as one of the ambassadors to show off what you can do with their MX Keys S Combo .  Shout out to George Profenza for dropping...

If you missed the first part of our conversation with Chris, listen to it here . Modular ’s new programming language, Mojo , is built for AI developers. Check out their docs or find them on GitHub . Connect with Chris on LinkedIn .  Shoutout to user DanielGibbs , who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering what is the difference between getType() and getClass() in java? . See Privacy Policy at https:...

Modular built a new programming language, Mojo , for AI developers. Explore their docs or find them on GitHub . Chris is on LinkedIn .  Congratulations to user Shengyuan Lu , whose answer to Priority queue ordering of elements merited a Lifeboat badge . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

If you missed the first part of this conversation, listen to it here . Replit is a browser-based IDE (integrated development environment). Check out their blog or start coding . ICYMI: Stack Overflow recently implemented semantic search , allowing users to search using natural language. Explore Stack Overflow Labs to learn more about OverflowAI and other projects. Amjad Masad is on LinkedIn , Twit...

Replit is a browser-based IDE (integrated development environment). See what they’re up to on their blog or just start coding . RIP Google Wave , one of the greats. Find Amjad on LinkedIn , Twitter , GitHub , or via his website . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

After founding two companies, including StrongDM , a dynamic management access platform (explore their docs here ), Elizabeth took a “break” by co-authoring a book.  Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth About Venture Capital from Startup to IPO is about what she learned as a founder and executive about the founder-investor relationship. Order it on Bookshop or Amazon . Elizabeth’s co-author is in...

Gašper ’s work combines machine learning, statistical modeling, neuroimaging, and behavioral experiments “to better understand how neural networks learn internal representations in speech and how humans learn to speak.” One thing that surprised him about generative adversarial networks (GANs) ? How innovative they are, capable of generating English words they’ve never heard before based on words t...