The Stack Overflow podcast is a weekly conversation about working in software development, learning to code, and the art and culture of computer programming. Hosted by Paul Ford and Ben Popper, the series features questions from our community, interviews with fascinating guests, and hot takes on what’s happening in tech. Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow is empowering the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. It’s best known for being the largest, most trusted online community for developers and technologists. More than 100 million people come to Stack Overflow every month to ask questions, help solve coding problems, and develop new skills.
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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 would you write the equivalent of this C++ loop in Rust.
Feature flags: Theory meets reality
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, software development, technical debt, business strategy, product management, feature management, DevOps, software engineering, pricing models, entitlements
“Countries are coming online tomorrow, whole countries”
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.
How the internet changed in 2024
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.
WBIT#3: Can good team dynamics make Agile obsolete?
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.
The developer skill you might be neglecting
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?.
Robots building robots in a robotic factory
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, gRPC, API-first, Sterling Chin, Postman, technology, software development
“Data is the key”: Twilio’s Head of R&D on the need for good data
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 productivity, responsible AI, tech stack, customer engagement, conversational AI
Failing fast at scale: Rapid prototyping at Intuit
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.
WBIT #2: Memories of persistence and the state of state
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.
How AI apps are like Google Search
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.
How developers (really) used AI coding tools in 2024
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Balancing business and open source in 2024
In this episode: The birth of React, how the world’s biggest open-source business is leveraging LLMs, the creator of Jenkins on CI/CD, the creator of Node.js and Deno on open-source evolution, and an open-source development paradigm.Listen to the full versions:How a creator of React is rethinking IDEs - Stack OverflowThe world’s largest open-source business has plans for enhancing LLMs - Stack OverflowThe creator of Jenkins discusses CI/CD and balancing business with open source - Stack OverflowRyan Dahl explains why Deno had to evolve with version 2.0 - Stack OverflowAn open-source development paradigm - Stack Overflow
How developer jobs (and the job market) changed in 2024
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