Louis Brandy, VP of Engineering at Rockset, joins us for a deep dive into the architectural similarities across AI, vector search, and real-time analytics, and how they’re all at play in shaping the infrastructure to fight spam. The post Fighting comment spam at Facebook scale (E … | Continue reading
If you want the tech debt metaphor to really shine, get some numbers behind it. The post If you want to address tech debt, quantify it first appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
A Qualcomm expert breaks down some of the tools and techniques they use to fit GenAI models on a smartphone. The post Fitting AI models in your pocket with quantization appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
On today’s episode we chat with CEO Dipanwita Das and CTO Hellmut Adolphs of Sorcero, which uses AI and large language models to make medical texts more discoverable and readable, helping knowledge to more easily spread, increasing the changes doctors and patients will find the s … | Continue reading
Understanding SRE, LLM courtesy, and AI drift. The post The Overflow #191: Between product and engineering appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Ben and senior software engineer Kyle Mitofsky are joined by two people who worked on the launch of Overflow AI: director of data science and data platform Michael Foree and senior software developer Alex Warren. They talk about how and why Stack Overflow launched semantic search … | Continue reading
SPONSORED BY DISCOVER FINANCIAL On this sponsored episode of the podcast, Ben and Ryan chat with Paul Manning and Emanuele Pugliese of Discover Financial about the tech that goes into payments and the way they approach developer experience and architecture. They talk about domain … | Continue reading
Tim Tutt, CEO and cofounder of Night Shift Development, tells the home team about his work in deploying large-scale search and discovery analytics, why he’s working to help nontechnical users understand and utilize their business data, and how GenAI is teaching people to ask bett … | Continue reading
Building AI at SO, lambdas in C++, and language translation The post The Overflow #190: Long live the new search! appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Laura Bell Main, founder and CEO of SafeStack, on why everyone should be an AppSec specialist and what she’s doing to make that happen. The post Why everyone should be an AppSec specialist (Ep. 598) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Measure whether your organization is successfully breaking down knowledge silos. The post Visualize knowledge flows with Connectivity appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
We're setting the record straight. The post Insights into Stack Overflow’s traffic appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Vladyslav Ukis, Head of R&D at Siemens Healthineers and an expert in site reliability engineering (SRE), joins Ben and Ryan to talk about the relationship between SRE and DevOps, balancing SRE principles with organizational structure, and how he thinks GenAI will impact his field … | Continue reading
If edge functions were an onion, most of the layers would be caching. The post Speeding up the I/O-heavy app: Q&A with Malte Ubl of Vercel appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Life on the Python Steering Council, early meetings, and boring architecture The post The Overflow #189: OverflowAI! appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Kathryn Murphy, SVP of Product and Design at Twilio, chats with Stack Overflow CTO Jody Bailey about walking the line between product design and engineering early in their careers, lessons learned at tech juggernauts like Salesforce and Amazon, and their respective roadmaps for i … | Continue reading
On this sponsored episode of the podcast, Ben talks with Amber Webb, Principal Engineer at Shell, and Naresh Kumar, Senior Principal Engineer at Shell, about their hyper automation initiative, which locates organization-level bottlenecks and removes them. The post How engineering … | Continue reading
Ben and Cassidy talk with programmer and developer advocate Sean Falconer, Head of Developer Relations and Marketing at Skyflow, ex-Googler, and host of the podcasts Partially Redacted and Software Engineering Daily. The post From startup to Google and back again (Ep. 595) appear … | Continue reading
Semantic search allows users to search using natural language instead of a rigid syntax of keyword manipulation. The post Ask like a human: Implementing semantic search on Stack Overflow appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Time to first byte, Lisp and AI, and mocking in unit tests. The post The Overflow #188: Recognition for individual contributors appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
To evolve our company, we had to change the way we work. The post Behind the scenes with the folks building OverflowAI (Ep. 594) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Let’s highlight the new features and products we announced today from the stage of WeAreDevelopers. The post Announcing OverflowAI appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
DevOps has helped lots of organizations improve their processes, but others have only seen frustration and burnout. The post Platform engineering is just DevOps with a product mindset appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
In part two of their conversation, Ben and Kyle chat with Python core developer and Steering Council member Pablo Galindo Salgado about balancing consistency and new features in language design, the importance of gathering community feedback on new iterations, and why he’s focuse … | Continue reading
Ben and senior software engineer Kyle Mitofsky talk with Pablo Galindo Salgado, a Python core developer and Python Steering Council member, about how he infiltrated software development from the world of physics, the journey from fixing typos to updating core, and the time he bro … | Continue reading
Faster websites through piggybacking on existing network architecture. The post Improving time to first byte: Q&A with Dana Lawson of Netlify appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
We sit down with Sascha Heyer, Senior ML specialist at DoIT, to learn how organizations can leverage the power of GenAI while avoiding the downsides. The post How AI can help your business, without the hallucinations appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Dr. Cat Hicks, Director of Pluralsight Flow’s Developer Success Lab, joins Ben and Eira to talk about why ICs deserve recognition for their contributions to big projects (and how they can get it). The post How ICs can get recognition for their work on big projects (Ep. 590) appea … | Continue reading
Knowledge management and AI, VPN security, and an SVG deep dive. The post The Overflow #186: Do large language models know what they’re talking about? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Connell, a UK-based .NET developer and senior software engineer at Stack Overflow, tells the home team about his path to software development via text-based RPGs, his work on Stack Overflow’s Community Enablement team, why Agile gets so much hate, and what he’s learned giving con … | Continue reading
Dana Lawson, Senior VP of Engineering at Netlify, joins Ben and Ryan to talk about her path from the military to tech, how three years at GitHub continues to shape her perspective, and how composable architecture is turning web development into something resembling LEGOsⓇ (in a g … | Continue reading
Syndicating code globally to be deployed locally allows just-in-time modifications to customize web apps. The post Exploring the infrastructure and code behind modern edge functions appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
DevX in energy sectors, fox talk, and Elixir loops and lists. The post The Overflow #185: The hardest part of software is requirements appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
VerseProp founder and CEO Joel Coren and founding partner and COO William Polisano join Ben to talk about digital real estate’s gaming roots, where the value of virtual properties comes from, and why they think digital real estate is on the cusp of a supercycle. The post From Sim … | Continue reading
Providing the right context to AI can improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations. The post Why knowledge management is foundational to AI success appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
The home team shares what our Developer Survey respondents said about AI, spicy opinions about recent Apple unveilings, and an update on crypto regulation. The post Developers use AI tools, they just don’t trust them (Ep. 586) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Large language models seem to possess the ability to reason intelligently, but does that mean they actually know things? The post Do large language models know what they are talking about? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Vertical farming, pure math for dummies, and git for solo devs. The post The Overflow #184: Stress test your code appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
On this episode of the podcast, Ben and Ryan chat with Martial Hebert, dean of the School of Computer Science at Ryan’s alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University. The post Making computer science more humane at Carnegie Mellon (ep. 585) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Thousands of the company’s engineers, data scientists, designers, and developers have asked and answered questions about how things work inside their organization. The post How Bloomberg’s engineers built a culture of knowledge sharing appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
And how software underlies the second-largest electric vehicle charging network. The post Improving the developer experience in the energy sector appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Chef cofounder Adam Jacob joins the home team to discuss the problems with the current state of cloud infrastructure, what engineers need but aren’t getting, and why he’s focused on creating a new and improved approach to infrastructure automation. The post The cofounder of Chef … | Continue reading
Why replacing programmers with AI won’t be so easy. The post The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
The birth of Agile, taking notes in an interview, and CSS nesting The post The Overflow #183: Dev Survey on AI: Hype or not? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Syed Hamid, founder and CEO of no-code test automation platform Sofy, joins Ben and Ryan to talk about scriptless automation, why his platform targets mobile app developers, and what he learned in nearly two decades at Microsoft. The post Throwing away the script on testing (Ep. … | Continue reading
What's the tech stack for kale? The post Part man. Part machine. All farmer. appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
It’s easy to ask for, and even want, feedback in a sort of theoretical sense. But soliciting and responding to feedback are, themselves skills. The post To improve as an engineer, get better at requesting (and receiving) feedback appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Itamar Friedman, CEO and cofounder of CodiumAI, and Kyle Mitofsky, a Senior Software Engineer on Stack Overflow’s public platform, join the home team for a conversation about code integrity and how AI tools are changing the way developers work. The post Stress test your code as y … | Continue reading