The Stack Overflow Podcast

Vercel is a developer-first, frontend-focused platform. Together with Google and Meta, Vercel built Next.js , an open-source React framework that helps developers build high-performance web experiences with ease. PlanetScale is a MySQL-compatible serverless database platform that enables infinite SQL horizontal scale. Tools like Webflow and Squarespace have made web development accessible for casu...

Once a company reaches a certain size, their customers might start asking for proof that it has good security and data habits. They want to know if there’s a business continuity plan in place in case disaster strikes. For many companies, formalizing this proof means submitting to an auditing process known as SOC 2. If you’re a developer at one of these companies, particularly if you provide or use...

Geriatric millennials unite. Learn more about GitHub’s move to put prebuilt Codespaces into public beta , plus check out CodeSandbox , home of self-proclaimed lazy developers. Meanwhile, in blockchain: Polygon, a solution designed to expand transaction efficiency and output for Ethereum, raised $450 million “to consolidate its lead in the race to scale Ethereum.” Is Decentraland the most annoying...

Danielle’s path to software engineering began when she was accepted into MIT’s Women’s Technology Program , an education and mentorship opportunity for high schoolers interested in engineering or computer science. She later earned her CS degree from MIT. Danielle’s first role out of college was a junior developer working on Meteor , a full-stack JavaScript framework that was just starting a GraphQ...

The team pays tribute to Microsoft’s Visual Studio , an IDE and source code editor that turns 25 this month. Read Simon Willison’s article on how companies can financially support the open-source contributors they rely on.  Learn more about open source’s diversity problem, and how to address it, here and here . Why are K-pop NFTs so unpopular with fans? The Atlantic digs in. ICYMI: Listen to our c...

David is a CS major who worked in Apple’s music group in the 90s and went on to become CEO of eMusic in the aughts.  At Venrock , David invested in early-stage crypto, consumer, and enterprise tech companies. He was early to crypto as a node maintainer on the Bitcoin blockchain and an Ethereum miner, setting up a rig in his basement several years ago. At CoinFund , he focuses on early- and growth-...

Learn more about GitHub’s ​​machine learning-based code scanning , which finds security issues before they make it to production. Google invests $100 million in a skills training program for low-income Americans . Is there a catch? Take2 is a New Zealand program that teaches incarcerated people to code: building marketable skills, opening up employment opportunities, and dramatically reducing reci...

Expensify is an expense management solution that integrates with your travel, ERP, and finance/accounting software. Check out their full list of integrations . Expensify engineers rely on Stack Overflow for Teams to make knowledge accessible and shareable, rather than wading through swathes of documentation. Read the case study . Flat organizations like Expensify have minimal or no middle manageme...

Ceora shouts out Mermaid , a JavaScript-based diagramming and charting tool that creates diagrams dynamically based on Markdown-inspired text definitions.  Coinbase’s bouncing QR code ad proved so popular it crashed the app . Considered passé pre-pandemic, QR codes have obvious value now: they’re touch-free, easy to scan, and ubiquitous. (Just don’t call it a comeback .) In preparation for his mov...

Here’s a useful primer on functional programming with JavaScript. This tutorial will guide you in exploring the fundamentals of functional programming with React . If you’re looking for more info on functional programming in React, we’d like to tell you why hooks are the best thing to happen to React . Functional not your thing? Learn why object-oriented programming (OOP) has become such a dominan...

Learn more about AlphaCode here . Check out an amazing video essay critiquing the NFT market, The Line Goes Up . Read up on Josh Wardle, the developer who built Wordle for his partner to help pass the time during the pandemic, then sold it to the NY Times for a sweet seven figures. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sel...

You can learn more about Clement's career on his LinkedIn and on Twitter (assuming you speak French). You can learn more about Dailymotion here and check out the roles they are hiring for here . You can find Cassidy Williams on Twitter and at her website .  You can find Ceora Ford on Twitter and at her website . Our Lifeboat badge winner of the week is Swati Kiran, who helped solve an error causin...

These days, every company looking at analyzing their data for insights has a data pipeline setup. Many companies have a fast production database, often a NoSQL or key-value store, that goes through a data pipeline. The pipeline process performs some sort of extract-transform-load process on it, then routes it to a larger data store that the analytics tools can access. But what if you could skip so...

It’s not news that, as Cassidy says, “remote has grown wildly fast”—but Remote has gone from about 25 employees in March 2020 to 900 now (a 3,500% increase). Ceora explains to Matt (oh, sweet summer’s child) what it means to get ratioed on Twitter. Inspired by a great read , the team discusses how Gen Z, having grown up without floppy disks, file folders, or directories, thinks about information....

SphereEX builds distributed data systems, making it easier for organizations to load balance massive data stores across multiple servers.  Now that open-source software has taken over Western software, it’s China’s turn. Even big companies like Baidu and Bytedance are opening up their projects.  Trista is the only female Apache member in China, which is both an honor and a demonstration of how muc...

Ceora has her second brain stored in Notion , complete with GIFs and pretty color to get that aesthetic. Ancient history in blog years: Cassidy talks about the perils of being bleeding-edge instead of cutting-edge: Apollo Mission: The pros and cons of being an early adopter of new technology  Everybody is aboard the VS Code train, which has the hottest TikTok around. Cassidy recommends the MonoLis...

Neopets : A little-known gateway into a software career. (Nineties kids will remember.) Among the products Mitchell helped build at Hashicorp: Terraform , Vagrant , and Vault . Not many C-level execs return to IC roles, but you might be surprised how many managers move back to being individual contributors . Follow Mitchell on Twitter here . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cali...

On this sponsored episode of the podcast, we talk with Marcin Wyszynski, founder and CEO at Spacelift . Marcin says Spacelift aims to be for infrastructure-as-code what GitHub is to git. It centralizes everything about your IaC system: it runs code, deploys within CI/CD pipelines, tracks the progress of your infrastructure, and gives you insight into who made what changes and why. Today it works w...

The Twitter thread that brought Cryptoland to the team’s attention. Ceora wonders whether participants in a hypothetical, decentralized version of YouTube (a YouTube-like dApp ) would need coding skills to contribute meaningfully. Why is Ethereum so expensive and so congested? Ben outlines how Solana has become the fastest-growing blockchain in the world by evolving the Ethereum concept to make it...

You can learn more about Gretel here . The company is hiring for numerous positions.  Think your commits are anonymous? Think again: DefCon researchers figured out how to de-anonymize code creators by their style .  We published an article about the importance of including privacy in your SDLC: Privacy is an afterthought in the software lifecycle. That needs to change. Our Lifeboat badge shoutout...

The inspiration for today's episode was a terrific article from The Guardian about the many ways in which the modern world, specifically the software we use every day, was designed to steal our attention.  During the episode, we discuss Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a professor know as the "father of flow" for his  pioneering research on flow states. Sadly, Prof. Csikszentmihalyi passed away in 2021, b...

Will no one think of the maintainers? As The New Stack points out , watching millions of projects fail because of a bug in an open source library has become common enough that  we shrug and reply, "Told you so." It's gotten so bad, big tech companies are visiting the White House to discuss the issue as a matter of national security. There is a great post up on the Stack Overflow blog examining  th...

You can find Maureen here .  You can find Scott here . There is a wealth of free courses available through the AWS training website , including Operations, Advanced Networking, Machine Learning, and Data Science.      See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

You can find Philippe on Twitter here and learn more about CrowdSec here . They recently put together a list of the IP addresses trying to exploit the new Log4j vulnerability. For a prescient view of today's cybersecurity challenges, Humeau recommends John Brunner's classic 1975 sci-fi novel, The Shockwave Rider. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at http...

Data scientists and engineers don’t always play well together. Data scientists will plan out a solution, carefully build models, test them in notebooks, then throw that solution over the wall to engineering. Implementing that solution can take months. Historically, the data science team has been purely science-driven. Work on methodologies, prove out something that they wanted to achieve, and then...