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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The creator of Jenkins discusses CI/CD and balancing business with open source
You can learn more about Kohsuke on his website.You can read more about Jenkins here.You can read more about Cloudbees here.Shout to Mossmyr for contributing a question that's now part of our CI/CD Collective: Is there a way to call a Jenkins Shared Library method from another Jenkins Shared Library?
At scale, anything that could fail definitely will
Pradeep talks about building at global scale and preparing for inevitable system failures. He talks about extra layers of security, including viewing your own VMs as untrustworthy. And he lays out where he thinks the world of cloud computing is headed as GenAI becomes a bigger piece of many company’s tech stack. You can find Pradeep on LinkedIn. He also writes a blog and hosts a podcast over at Oracle First Principles. Congrats to Stack Overflow user shantanu, who earned a Great Question badge for asking: Which shell I am using in mac? Over 100,000 people have benefited from your curiosity.
Mobile Observability: monitoring performance through cracked screens, old batteries, and crappy Wi-Fi
You can learn more about Austin on LinkedIn and check out a blog he wrote on building the SDK for Open Telemetry here.You can find Austin at the CNCF Slack community, in the OTel SIG channel, or the client-side SIG channels. The calendar is public on opentelemetry.io. Embrace has its own Slack community to talk all things Embrace or all things mobile observability. You can join that by going to embrace.io as well.Congrats to Stack Overflow user Cottentail for earning an Illuminator badge, awarded when a user edits and answers 500 questions, both actions within 12 hours.
Where does Postgres fit in a world of GenAI and vector databases?
For the last two years, Postgres has been the most popular database among respondents to our Annual Developer Survey. Timescale is a startup working on an open-source PostgreSQEL stack for AI applications. You can follow the company on X and check out their work on GitHub. You can learn more about Avthar on his website and on LinkedIn. Congrats to Stack Overflow user Haymaker for earning a Great Question badge. They asked: How Can I Override the Default SQLConnection Timeout? Nearly 250,000 other people have been curious about this same question.
From PHP to JavaScript to Kubernetes: how backend engineering evolved
You can learn more about Geshan on his website or check him out on LinkedIn.Geshan also shared the slide decks for a few of his talks on serverless and containers.Congrats to Stack Overflow user Matthew Reed for earning a populist badge with his answer to the question: GitHub: How to do case sensitive search for the code in repository?
Ryan Dahl explains why Deno had to evolve with version 2.0
If you’ve never seen it, check out Ryan’s classic talk, 10 Things I Regret About Node.JS, which gives a great overview of the reasons he felt compelled to create Deno.You can learn more about Ryan on Wikipedia, his website, and his Github page.To learn more about Deno 2.0, listen to Ryan talk about it here and check out the project’s Github page here.Congrats to Hugo G, who earned a Great Answer Badge for his input on the following question: How can I declare and use Boolean variables in a shell script?
Battling ticket bots and untangling taxes at the frontiers of e-commerce
You can find Ilya on LinkedIn here.You can listen to Ilya talk about Commerce Components here, a system he describes as a "modern way to approach your commerce architecture without reducing it to a (false) binary choice between microservices and monoliths."As Ilya notes, “there are a lot of interesting implications for runtime and how we're solving it at Shopify. There is a direct bridge there to a performance conversation as well: moving untrusted scripts off the main thread, sandboxing UI extensions, and more.” No badge winner today. Instead, user Kaizen has a question about Shopify that still needs an answer. Maybe you can help! How to Activate Shopify Web Pixel Extension on Production Store?
Scaling systems to manage the data about the data
Coalesce is a solution to transform data at scale. You can find Satish on LinkedIn. We previously spoke to Satish for a Q&A on the blog: AI is only as good as the data: Q&A with Satish Jayanthi of CoalesceWe previously covered metadata on the blog: Metadata, not data, is what drags your database downCongrats to Lifeboat winner nwinkler for saving this question with a great answer: Docker run hello-world not working
How we’re making Stack Overflow more accessible
Read Dan’s blog post about the process of making Stack Overflow more accessible.We followed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), with a few exceptions. For example, we chose to measure color contrast using the Accessible Perceptual Contrast Algorithm (APCA). We quantified the accessibility of our products using the Axe accessibility testing engine.Our accessibility dashboard helps our internal teams and the community track the accessibility of our products: Stacks (our design system), the public platform (Stack Overflow and all Stack Exchange sites), and Stack Overflow for Teams (including Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise products). We also implemented robust accessibility testing and made those rules open-source in a comprehensive package you can find here.Shoutout to user Beejor for an excellent answer to the question What is the largest safe UDP packet size on the internet?.
Unpacking the 2024 Developer Survey results
Read the blog post or dive into the results of our 2024 Developer Survey.A few highlights to get you started: most popular technologies,most admired and desired programming languages,feelings about/use of AI coding tools, andwhat we know about the global developer community.Speaking of our developer community, Stack Overflow user Frank earned a Stellar Question badge by wondering How to use C++ in Go.
How developer experience can escape the spreadsheet
Cortex is an internal developer portal that cuts noise and helps devs build and continuously improve software. Explore their docs or see what’s happening on their blog.Cortex is also hiring, so if you’re an engineer who wants to work on these kinds of problems, check out their careers page.Connect with Anish on LinkedIn or X.Ganesh is also on LinkedIn and X.Shoutout to Alex Chesters, who earned a Great Question badge with How to count occurrences of an element in a Swift array?.
How Stack Overflow fends off scraping bots
As Josh explains, DDoS attacks aim to take down a website, while bot scrapers try to gather as much data as possible without getting caught.Josh Zhang is a staff site reliability engineer (SRE) at Stack Overflow. Connect with him on LinkedIn.ICYMI: In 2022, Josh wrote an article for our blog about how Stack defends itself against DDoS attacks.Stack Overflow user Serge Ballesta won a Lifeboat badge for answering What does |= mean in c++.
On the web, data doesn’t define us. It creates us.
Jannis Kallinikos is a coauthor of Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy (MIT Press, 2024) with Cristina Alaimo, which lays out a framework for a new social science focused on the socioeconomic changes driven by data. You can read an excerpt from Data Rules on our blog here.Explore more of Dr. Kallinikos’s work.Shoutout to Lifeboat badge winner Ebrahim Ghasemi for answering What is the structure of an application protocol data unit (APDU) command and response?
The problem with the tech debt mindset
Chelsea Troy defines technical debt and maintenance load in her blog post, “Stop saying ‘technical debt.’”Learn more about technical bankruptcy in this blog post, “Monitoring debt builds up faster than software teams can pay it off.”Joel Spolsky’s classic blog post on avoiding rewriting code from scratch – Things you should never do, part I.Technical debt as explained by Ward Cunningham, who coined the term.Code as an asset, a conversation from Hacker News.Middleware is the “software glue” that provides services to applications beyond those available from the operating system. Ratpack framework is a toolkit for creating high performance web applications.React is a front end javascript library.jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML.Questions about functional programming.User shout out! Nikoksr received the lifeboat badge after answering a question related to math.pow.
Java, but why? The state of Java in 2024
You can connect with Lenny Primak at Flow Logix, X, LinkedIn, Github, or Mastodon. Got questions about Java? Check out the site.Apache Groovy is a Java programming language. Virtual Threads reduce the effort put into writing and maintaining code as well as observing high-throughput concurrent applications.Apache Shiro is an open-source security framework that can do authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management. Jakarta EE, or Jakarta Enterprise Edition, is a suite of services that helps developers write enterprise applications for the Java platform.