The Stack Overflow Podcast
The Stack Overflow Podcast
For well over a decade, the Stack Overflow Podcast has been exploring what it means to be a developer and how the art and practice of software engineering is changing our world. From creating code to running it in production, we host important conversations and fascinating guests that will help you understand how technology is made and where it’s headed. Hosted by Ryan Donovan, the Stack Overflow Podcast is your home for all things software.
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Jul 10, 2026
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AI agents that help doctors get paid 13.12.2024 27:31
Thoughtful AI provides AI agents that help revenue cycle management (RCM) teams get providers their money from insurance companies. Does AI have a better bedside manner than doctors? One study suggest they do. Connect with Dan on X and LinkedIn . Congrats to Populist badge winner Marcio Mazzucato for doing the accepted answer one better on How do I emulate a 403 error page ?. Want a preview? He...
What security teams need to understand about developers 10.12.2024 22:27
NightVision offers web and API security testing tools built to integrate with developers’ established workflows. NightVision identifies issues by precise area(s) of code, so devs don’t have to chase down and validate vulnerability reports, a process that eats up precious engineering resources. Get started with their docs . Connect with Kinnaird on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user Cecil Curry earned...
From bugs to performance to perfection: pushing code quality in mobile apps 06.12.2024 24:57
Instabug helps developers monitor, prioritize, and debug performance and stability issues throughout the mobile app development lifecycle. Get started with their docs . Connect with Kenny on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user itoctopus earned a Populist badge by explaining how to Break huge URLs so they don't overflow . Some great excerpts from today’s episode: On why they built a lean, mean SDK: “N...
Even high-quality code can lead to tech debt 03.12.2024 28:38
Tabnine is an AI code assistant that offers AI tools for code generation, testing, and code review. Eran was previously a researcher at IBM, where he worked on IBM Watson . Connect with Eran on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user Anders earned a Populist badge with their first-class answer to How to detect the current screen resolution? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California...
Your docs are your infrastructure 26.11.2024 22:56
Fabrizio is now the lead documentation engineer Tinybird , a data platform for user-facing analytics. Get started with their docs or explore their blog . Find Fabrizio’s blog here . Some reading suggestions: What docs as code really means How I'm using AI as a technical writer Why I became a Documentation Engineer (and what that even means) Find Fabrizio on LinkedIn or GitHub . See Privacy Policy...
The app that fights for your data privacy rights 22.11.2024 25:50
Sukhi is a senior product manager for Permission Slip by Consumer Reports, an app to help people exercise their digital data privacy rights. Consumer Reports is a nonprofit organization with a long history of protecting consumers’ rights and advocating for changes that make them safer. Connect with Sukhi on LinkedIn or via her website . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Martijn Pieters , who’s earn...
We'll Be In Touch: A New Podcast From Stack Overflow! 21.11.2024 33:27
Hello everyone and welcome to the very first episode of We'll Be in Touch , a new podcast series from Stack Overflow. This show will explore the world of job interviews, career development, and software engineering. Each episode, we'll sit down with folks working in software development to hear their stories, dive into their latest projects, learn about tricky bugs they've tackled, and discuss th...
The open-source ecosystem built to reduce tech debt 19.11.2024 27:14
Moderne is an open-source company building automated source code transformations for framework migrations, vulnerability patches, and API migrations. Explore the platform here . OpenRewrite is a community-driven open source project that consists of an auto-refactoring engine that runs prepackaged refactoring recipes for common framework migrations, security fixes, and stylistic consistency tasks....
Meet the guy responsible for building the Call of Duty game engine 15.11.2024 21:46
Chris works at Sledgehammer Games (a division of Activision), which develops titles in the Call of Duty franchise. Explore their open roles here . Want to see Chris’s engine in action? Check out COD: Modern Warfare III . Connect with Chris on LinkedIn . Kudos to Stack Overflow user teh.fonsi , who earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining How to execute 1 command x times in java . See Privacy Policy...
A student of Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Jeff Dean explains where AI is headed 12.11.2024 34:52
Clarifai is a developer-friendly AI workflow orchestration platform built to help devs integrate AI into technical workflows and customer experiences. We’ve written about best practices for integrating AI tools into your workflows . Connect with Matt on LinkedIn or via his website . You can also read his posts on the Clarifai blog. Well-deserved congrats to Stack Overflow user Jay Wick , who earn...
One of the world’s biggest web scrapers has some thoughts on data ownership 08.11.2024 34:02
Or Lenchner is the CEO of Bright Data , a web data platform that offers ready-made datasets, proxy networks, and AI-powered web scrapers. Developers can get started with their docs here . ICYMI, read our blog post about the knowledge-as-a-service business model and how it will guide the future of our paid platform. AI answers alone aren’t knowledge. Connect with Or on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow u...
How Google is helping developers get better answers from AI 05.11.2024 25:40
Logan previously worked at OpenAI, where he led developer relations. He’s now a senior product manager for Google AI Studio , the fastest way for devs to get started with the Gemini API . Logan’s team just rolled out Grounding with Google Search, a feature built to help developers get fresher, more accurate responses from the Gemini models aided by Google Search. Learn more here . Connect with Lo...
How a creator of React is rethinking IDEs 01.11.2024 24:36
Want to learn more about the early days of React? React.js: The Documentary gives you the full story from the perspective of the developers who created it. Vercel is a native Next.js platform. v0 aims to democratize software development for non-technical users. Check it out here . Listen to our recent conversation with Vercel’s VP of AI . Connect with Tom on LinkedIn or X . Kudos to Stack Overflow...
Life in the Fastlane: SDK tools built with developers in mind 30.10.2024 31:06
Fastlane by PayPal is an accelerated guest checkout experience. Visit the Fastlane Resource Center for Developers to get started. You can find Sunny Patel on LinkedIn and on GitHub . Find Kyle Prinsloo on X and on LinkedIn . Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner M.M who provided an answer to What does the "Expected '(' for function-style cast or type construction" error mean? See Privacy Pol...
How can you get your kids into coding? We asked an 8-year-old app builder. 29.10.2024 23:00
Watch Fay build a Harry Potter-themed chatbot with an assist from AI. Cursor is the AI code editor Fay’s using. Get started with their docs . Connect with Ricky on LinkedIn or X . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Mahendra Kulkarni , who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering How do I get current rowindex of a table using JavaScript? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California P...
Tragedy of the (data) commons 25.10.2024 30:36
The Data Provenance Initiative is a collective of volunteer AI researchers from around the world. They conduct large-scale audits of the massive datasets that power state-of-the-art AI models with a goal of mapping the landscape of AI training data to improve transparency, documentation, and informed use of data. Their Explorer tool allows users to filter and analyze the training datasets typicall...
The new pair programming: an AI agent that cleans your code as you write 22.10.2024 29:27
Tariq Shaukat, the former president of Google Cloud and Bumble, is the CEO of Sonar. Follow him on LinkedIn . Sonar offers code quality and security solutions that help developers write clean code and remediate existing code organically. Their product SonarQube helps devs ensure the quality and security of AI-generated code. Watch Olivier Gaudin, founder of Sonar, explain why clean code is the fou...
How API security is evolving for the GenAI era 18.10.2024 23:42
Solo.io provides API gateway, service mesh, and internal developer portal solutions. Follow Solo.io on X or LinkedIn or dig into the docs . Want to brush up on RAG? Our Guide to AI walks you through the concept and includes a practical example. Or check out one expert’s practical tips for RAG on our blog. Connect with Keith on LinkedIn . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user MrSimpleMind : their helpfu...
The team behind Unity 6 explains the new features aimed at helping developers 16.10.2024 20:13
Ryan is a VP of Product focused on the Unity Engine and AI services. You can find him on LinkedIn and X . Martin Best is a Principal Product Architect working on the Unity Engine. You can find him on LinkedIn . To learn more about Unity 6, please visit their website . Show some love to this question and Stack Overflow user NPatch, who provided an accepted answer to the question: Why is my charact...
What launching rockets taught this CTO about hardware observability 15.10.2024 25:32
Sift is an end-to-end observability stack for safety-critical hardware development. See what they’re up to on their blog . We talked to SpaceX about their testing processes way back in 2021. Connect with Austin on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user TheScholar earned a Great Question badge by wondering How to create a new deep copy (clone) of a List? , a question that’s helped more than 200,000 peopl...
Is this the real life? Training autonomous cars with simulations 11.10.2024 20:39
Helm.ai licenses AI software throughout the L2-L4 autonomous driving stack, which includes perception, intent modeling, path planning, and vehicle control. They’re hiring ! Connect with Vlad on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user user3330840 won a Lifeboat badge for their answer to My commits appear as another user in GitHub? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Noti...
Think you don’t need observability? Think again 08.10.2024 29:06
Memento is a real-time data platform designed to help developers ship better products faster. Explore the platform here or get started in the docs . Connect with Daniela on LinkedIn and follow Momento on X . Stack Overflow user Simon Juhl won a Lifeboat badge for dropping some knowledge on HTMLCSS change Date input highlight color . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California P...
Meet the AI native developers who build software through prompt engineering 04.10.2024 20:42
You can find Crystal on LinkedIn . You can learn more about FSH Tech here. Congrats to Stack OVerflow user David Conrad, who earned a lifeboat badge for answering the question: How do I create a map with key and value in one line in Java? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
A developer works to balance the data center boom with his climate change battle 01.10.2024 26:39
You can find David on LinkedIn . You can learn more about Arcjet here. You can subscribe to to the console.dev newsletter and podcast here. Congrats to Stack Overflow user Greg Hewgill who earned a Populist badge for his answer to the question: What’s a good tool to determine the lowest version of Python required? Greg is getting close to the magic one million rep mark! See Privacy Policy at htt...
This dev went from coding at Meta, to search at Google, to investing in AI with Anthropic 27.09.2024 24:57
You can find Deedy on Twitter and LinkedIn . You can learn more about the Anthology Fund here . You can learn more about Menlo Ventures here . Congrats to Stack Overflow users Bobince for earning a Populist badge with their answer to the question: What does sorting mean in non-alphabetic languages? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p...
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