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SPONSORED BY DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES Go deeper into Technology at Discover .  If your interested in working on an event-driven architecture that uses domain-driven design within a financial organization, check out jobs.discover.com . Connect with Paul on LinkedIn . .  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info...

The mission of Night Shift Development is to democratize data analytics to help organizations and users of all skill levels understand their data. Their flagship product, ClearQuery , is a data intelligence and analytics platform designed for nontechnical users.  ClearQuery has a free version that lets you try out the full array of features. Learn how it works and register here to get started, gra...

Vlad is Head of Research and Development at Siemens Healthineers , the healthcare arm of tech conglomerate Siemens . He wrote about SRE on our blog here . His book, Establishing SRE Foundations: A Step-by-Step Guide to Introducing Site Reliability Engineering in Software Delivery Organizations , is available now.  Site reliability engineering (SRE) applies a software engineering approach to IT ope...

Twilio is a customer engagement platform whose communication APIs for voice, text, chat, email, and video are used by millions of developers. See what’s happening on their blog , dig into their docs , or check out their Stack Overflow Collective . This summer, Twilio announced CustomerAI, which applies the power of LLMs to the rich troves of customer data that flows through Twilio’s platform. Lear...

Find out why others have joined Shell .  If you want to experience being a developer at one of the world’s largest energy companies, they’re hiring . Amber Webb is on LinkedIn . Naresh Kumar is on LinkedIn . Congrats to Tomasz Kula , today’s Lifeboat badge winner, for dropping some knowledge on Multiple components binding with the same reactive form control update issue and saving it from ruin.  S...

Sean hosts Partially Redacted , a podcast about data privacy, security, and compliance. He also hosts the podcast Software Engineering Daily , which features technical interviews on everything from the ethics of GPTs to cloud-native search and WebAssembly. Start with the recent episode Surviving ChatGPT with Christian Hubicki (of Survivor fame). You can also read about how he crowdsourced a behavi...

You can learn more about OverflowAI and sign up to be an alpha tester here . You can check out Ellen and Jody on Linkedin.  Congrats to Ben Lindsay , who was awarded a Lifeboat badge for his answer to: How can I divide each element in a tuple by a single integer? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Pablo is a Python core developer, Steering Council member, and release manager of Python 3.10 and 3.11. He’s currently a senior software engineer at Bloomberg. Looking for a comprehensive guide to contributing to Python? The Python Developer’s Guide is the place to start. The Zen of Python is a list of the language’s guiding principles, including, “There should be one—and preferably only one—obvio...

Pablo is a Python core developer, Steering Council member, and release manager of Python 3.10 and 3.11. He splits this work 50/50 with his day job as a senior software engineer at Bloomberg. An astrophysicist by training, he did his PhD on rotating black holes . Whether you’re a new contributor or a seasoned veteran, the Python Developer’s Guide is a comprehensive guide to contributing to Python....

DoIT ’s sales pitch is simple: they provide technology and expertise to clients who want to use the cloud, free of charge, with the big cloud providers paying the bills. You can check out Sascha’s writing on machine learning on his Medium blog .   Connect with him on LinkedIn or subscribe to his YouTube channel . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at http...

Cat’s research centers on the socio-cognitive factors and processes that help people learn and succeed. In her role as director of Pluralsight Flow’s Developer Success Lab , she studies what makes software teams thrive and shares that research with the community so teams can learn from her findings. In a recent report , the Dev Success Lab explored how visibility can encourage higher-performing te...

ICYMI, listen to our episode with Agile pioneer Jim Highsmith: The meeting that changed how we build software (Ep. 579) . Explore Connell’s website or his talks . Connell will be speaking at DDD East Midlands again this year: October 7, 2023 (with apologies to our British listeners for the date format).  He’s also on GitHub , Twitter , and Stack Overflow (naturally). Thanks to Connell for answerin...

Netlify ’s all-in-one development platform gives devs access to build, deploy, and backend services for websites and web apps. Get started with their docs . Jamstack is a web development architecture based on JavaScript, APIs, and Markup (the JAM in Jamstack). Learn what Jamstack is and what benefits it offers. Composable architecture has been called “ the next big thing ” in web development. Netl...

VerseProp is a digital real estate platform where users can buy, sell, and rent virtual properties. New to the concept of digital real estate? The Motley Fool has a useful primer for you. If you need to brush up on your investment terms, a supercycle is “a sustained period of expansion, usually driven by robust growth in demand for products and services.” Joel is on LinkedIn . Will is on LinkedIn...

Our 2023 Developer Survey explored AI’s benefits for developers. Read about the results here . For more WWDC talk, listen to our episode from last month: Chatting with Apple at WWDC: Macros in Swift and the new visionOS (Ep. 578) . Squarespace is acquiring Google Domains. Congratulations to Bruno Brant , who won a Lifeboat badge for answering Where can I view LINQ source code? . See Privacy Policy...

While he’s been the dean of the School of Computer Science since 2019, Martial started his career at Carnegie Mellon University way back in 1984.  Ben covered LIDAR inventor Velodyne while at the Verge , while Martial has LIDAR’s ancestor, the laser rangefinder , which was state of the art in 1986.  Martial’s area of research is in computer vision and perception for autonomous systems. Since 1985,...

Software might not be top of mind when you think of an energy company like Shell, but software engineering powers a lot of what they do. The tech stack includes React, Golang, Python, GraphQL, MongoDB, Kafka, and the list goes on. The experience their developers have at work is a priority for the organization and its leaders.  Episode notes: Find out why others have joined Shell .  If you want to...

Adam is the cofounder and former CTO of Chef , which provides DevOps automation tools that help configure, deploy, and manage application infrastructure, including security and compliance. Adam’s new venture, System Initiative , reimagines infrastructure-as-code as collaborative, open-source software. See what they’re up to on their blog , starting with Adam’s article DevOps without papercuts . If...

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...