Fighting comment spam at Facebook scale (Ep. 602)

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


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If you want to address tech debt, quantify it first

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


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Fitting AI models in your pocket with quantization

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Medical research made understandable with AI (ep. 601)

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

The Overflow #191: Between product and engineering

Understanding SRE, LLM courtesy, and AI drift. The post The Overflow #191: Between product and engineering appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Semantic search without the napalm grandma exploit (Ep. 600)

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Making event-driven development predictable with Discover

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


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Want better answers from your data? Ask better questions

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

The Overflow #190: Long live the new search!

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


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Why everyone should be an AppSec specialist (Ep. 598)

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


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Visualize knowledge flows with Connectivity

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


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Insights into Stack Overflow’s traffic

We're setting the record straight. The post Insights into Stack Overflow’s traffic appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading


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Understanding SRE (Ep. 597)

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Speeding up the I/O-heavy app: Q&A with Malte Ubl of Vercel

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


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The Overflow #189: OverflowAI!

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


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The fine line between product and engineering (Ep. 596)

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


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How engineering teams at a large org can move at startup speed

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


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From startup to Google and back again (Ep. 595)

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Ask like a human: Implementing semantic search on Stack Overflow

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


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The Overflow #188: Recognition for individual contributors

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Behind the scenes with the folks building OverflowAI (Ep. 594)

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Announcing OverflowAI

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Platform engineering is just DevOps with a product mindset

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

How the Python team is adapting the language for an AI future (Ep. 593)

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

What it’s like to be on the Python Steering Council (Ep. 592)

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Improving time to first byte: Q&A with Dana Lawson of Netlify

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


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How AI can help your business, without the hallucinations

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

How ICs can get recognition for their work on big projects (Ep. 590)

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


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The Overflow #186: Do large language models know what they’re talking about?

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


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How terrifying is giving a conference talk? (Ep. 589)

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Jamstack is evolving toward a composable web (Ep. 588)

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Exploring the infrastructure and code behind modern edge functions

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


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The Overflow #185: The hardest part of software is requirements

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


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From Sims to supercycle? (Ep. 587)

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Why knowledge management is foundational to AI success

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Developers use AI tools, they just don’t trust them (Ep. 586)

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


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Do large language models know what they are talking about?

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


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The Overflow #184: Stress test your code

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Making computer science more humane at Carnegie Mellon (ep. 585)

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

How Bloomberg’s engineers built a culture of knowledge sharing

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


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Improving the developer experience in the energy sector

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

The cofounder of Chef is cooking up a less painful DevOps (Ep. 584)

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

The Overflow #183: Dev Survey on AI: Hype or not?

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Throwing away the script on testing (Ep. 583)

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Part man. Part machine. All farmer. 

What's the tech stack for kale? The post Part man. Part machine. All farmer.  appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

To improve as an engineer, get better at requesting (and receiving) feedback 

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago

Stress test your code as you write it (Ep. 581)

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


@stackoverflow.blog | 1 year ago