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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Oct 13, 2026

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Episodes

Junky data is like an out-of-tune guitar—it prevents AI harmony 13.03.2025

Welcome to Leaders of Code, a new business segment of the Stack Overflow podcast. On this show, we chat with business, tech, and engineering leaders from forward-thinking companies across industries about their business strategies, the challenges and opportunities of building high-performing teams, driving innovation, leveraging the power of AI, and other key topics. Tune in every second Thursday...

Sharing the power of the command line 11.03.2025

Warp is an intelligent terminal that combines AI tools and developer resources in one interface. Zach’s hope was to give more developers access to the arcane magic of the command line. Connect with Zach on LinkedIn . If you’re a terminal user, which one is your go-to and why? Let us know at podcast@stackoverflow.com .  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice a...

Is Postgres the best database for GenAI? 07.03.2025

Postgres is an open-source database. EDB offers enterprise-grade features and support for Postgres from self-managed to fully-managed, cloud-based DBaaS. Find Jezz on LinkedIn .  Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Jonny , who won a Populist badge with their exceptional answer to quantile function for a vector of dates . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...

How can AI perform on the edge? 05.03.2025

Episode notes: Infineon is a global semiconductor company for power systems and IoT. You can connect with Clark and Alexander on LinkedIn.  Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner hdsenevi for their answer on Unrecognized font family 'Roboto' - React Native iOS . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Secure coding beyond just memory safety 04.03.2025

Semgrep is an AppSec platform that lets devs deploy static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), and secret scans. Explore their docs . Tanya is the author of Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding and Alice and Bob Learn Application Security . She’s also written for our blog: Three layers to secure a software development organization and Continuous delivery, meet co...

“Translation is the tip of the iceberg”: A deep dive into specialty models 28.02.2025

Smartling is an enterprise translation platform that includes AI-powered translation solutions. Connect with Olga on LinkedIn .  Kudos to Stack Overflow user Suleka_28 , who earned a Populist badge by explaining how to convert logits to probability in binary classification in tensorflow . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-...

Writing tests with AI, but not LLMs 25.02.2025

Diffblue Cover is an AI agent for testing complex Java code at scale. Check out their docs to get started automating unit tests today. This article will help you understand the difference between Diffblue Cover and Copilot. Find Animesh on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user Keet Sugathadasa earned a Populist badge by answering a question in the CI/CD Collective : Gitlab CI CD variable are not getting...

One quality every engineering manager should have? Empathy. 21.02.2025

CLEAR is an identity company trying to take the friction out of air travel (such as with TSA PreCheck , available through CLEAR), stadium events, and other experiences that require security screening.  Find Caitlin on LinkedIn .  Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Patrick Pijnappel , who earned a Populist badge with their answer to Redirect all output to file using Bash on Linux? . It’s helped 230,00...

WBIT #4: Using GIS to understand the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to 19.02.2025

Forerunner provides a platform for floodplain management.  Do you also have gnarly caching issues? Check out an overview of how we use caching at Stack Overflow .  If you want to connect with Lauren, head over to her LinkedIn page.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Why is it so hard for companies to protect your privacy? 18.02.2025

Transcend is a data privacy and governance platform. See what they’re up to on their blog or dive into their docs . Find Minh on LinkedIn . Stack Overflow user ivanavitdev earned a Populist badge with their exceptionally thoughtful answer to How to use toSorted() method in TypeScript . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not...

Solving the data doom loop 14.02.2025

Hasura is a GraphQL API platform. Get started exploring here . Read Ken’s article on the data doom loop . Find Ken on LinkedIn .  Shoutout to Stack Overflow user liquorvicar , who earned a Lifeboat badge with an exemplary answer to Checking value in an array inside one SQL query with WHERE clause . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p...

A distributed database that can withstand a meteor strike 12.02.2025

OceanBase is an open-source distributed database. Check it out on GitHub . For more information, follow OceanBase on LinkedIn , X , and YouTube . To connect with Charlie Yang, find him on LinkedIn . Got questions about OceanBase? Join the discussion here on Stack Overflow . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-inf...

“In the short term, more chaos”: What’s next for API design 11.02.2025

Speakeasy builds API tooling for developers. Find Sagar on LinkedIn .  Kudos to Stack Overflow user Bergi , who earned a Lifeboat badge with an exemplary answer to What is the Universal Module Definition (UMD)? . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Why build your own vector DB? To process 25,000 images per second 07.02.2025

Verkada is a cloud-based video security company.  Back in the innocent days of 2021, we spoke with a company that makes smart dashcams . See how far video and image processing has come.  Congrats to Reg for earning a Lifeboat badge for their answer on What is the difference between JSP and Spring? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pr...

Will the web ever be the primary delivery system for 3D games? 04.02.2025

Tres.js is an open-source 3D engine for Vue built on Three.js .  Find Jaime on LinkedIn or GitHub or explore his creative lab . Push is a browser-based identity security platform that detects and blocks identity attacks, enforces security controls, and monitors employee logins to cloud accounts. Shoutout to Stack Overflow user zwol , who earned a Lifeboat badge with an excellent answer to How woul...

Feature flags: Theory meets reality 31.01.2025

Schematic offers SDKs for packaging, pricing, and entitlements.  Check out Ben’s article on feature flags .  Listen to Bill Tarr from AWS and Brian Rinaldi (then at LaunchDarkly and now at Localstack) talk about the opportunity to extend feature flags beyond deployment and rollout and into entitlement management and monetization. Find Fynn on LinkedIn . Find Ben on LinkedIn . feature flags, softwa...

“Countries are coming online tomorrow, whole countries” 28.01.2025

ClickUp is a work and chat platform designed to streamline workflows and make people more productive. You can find RJ on LinkedIn or explore his posts on the ClickUp blog . Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Hemant Singh , who helped the community understand pause vs stop in docker . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell...

How the internet changed in 2024 24.01.2025

Check out Cloudflare’s 2024 Year in Review . Read John’s posts on the Cloudflare blog or connect with him on LinkedIn .  Shoutout to user Timo Kähkönen for providing knowledge-seekers with a cheap algorithm to find measure of angle between vectors . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

WBIT#3: Can good team dynamics make Agile obsolete? 22.01.2025

ApartmentAdvisor helps renters find apartments and navigate more complicated markets.  What were the people who wrote the Agile Manifesto thinking? Listen to our podcast with original signatory Jim Highsmith and find out.  You think the tech is impressive? Wes played the first “perfect” game of Donkey Kong .  Find Wes on GitHub , LinkedIn , Twitter , or his website .  See Privacy Policy at https:/...

The developer skill you might be neglecting 17.01.2025

Find Geoffrey (Jef) Huck on LinkedIn or check out his website . Stack Overflow user Matt earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining What is the difference between Tomcat containers and Docker containers? .  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Robots building robots in a robotic factory 14.01.2025

Postman is an API development platform that lets developers prototype, document, test, and demo all their APIs in one place. Postman’s cofounder and CEO recently wrote about the rise of agentic AI . Find Sterling on LinkedIn .  Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Knossos , who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering What is the difference between TextView and TextViewCompat .  APIs, AI, GraphQL, REST, gR...

“Data is the key”: Twilio’s Head of R&D on the need for good data 10.01.2025

Twilio , a communication platform as a service (CPaaS), allows developers to build voice, video, and messaging capabilities into their apps. Devs can get started with their docs . Find Inbal on LinkedIn . Kudos to Stack Overflow user Wesos de Queso for explaining how to Prevent a toggle group from not having a toggle selected - Java FX . AI, Twilio, Inbal Shani, machine learning, LLM, developer pr...

Failing fast at scale: Rapid prototyping at Intuit 08.01.2025

To learn more about technology or careers at Intuit, visit intuit.com/technology .  Want to read more about rapid prototyping at Intuit ? To connect with Himanshu, find him on LinkedIn .  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

WBIT #2: Memories of persistence and the state of state 07.01.2025

Polly is an embedded insurance company, which means you buy the insurance for a car or house at the same time as you buy the car or house itself.   Redux is a state management library for JavaScript.  We’ve talked about the productivity drains that meetings can have previously on the blog.  Connect with Jon on LinkedIn .  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notic...

How AI apps are like Google Search 03.01.2025

Jetify gives developers a cloud environment for building AI powered applications.  Check out their blog or explore Jetify Cloud , a suite of managed services designed to make software development easier for teams. Daniel is on LinkedIn .  Stack Overflow user Dhaval Simaria earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining the Difference between pushing a docker image and installing helm image .  See Privacy P...

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