Serverless functions have made computing seamless and fast. but for worldwide audiences, you need to get closer to your user to overcome latency. The post How edge functions move your back end close to your front end appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
On this sponsored episode of the podcast, we talk with Stanimira Vlaeva, Developer Advocate at MongoDB, and Fredric Favelin, Technical Director, Partner Presales at MongoDB, about how a serverless database can minimize the distance between producing data and understanding it. The … | Continue reading
Sam Scott, cofounder and CTO of Oso, joins the home team to talk about what makes authorization a challenge, the difference between authentication and authorization, and what zombies taught him about web development. The post Authorization on Rails (Ep. 540) appeared first on Sta … | Continue reading
While public cloud usage continues to grow, an increasing number are also moving to on-prem private clouds (sometimes even owning and operating their own hardware). The post Are clouds having their on-prem moment? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Is there a connection between programming and ADHD? And could it be that people with ADHD are particularly well-suited to programming careers? The post Developer with ADHD? You’re not alone. appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Secure code and SLDC practices, lossless compression, and tech specs The post The Overflow #165: Your new favorite band is an AI appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
David Hsu, founder and CEO of Retool, joins Ben to talk about low-code and no-code tools: why some folks love to hate them and whether they really help devs work faster or just allow those of us who aren’t programmers to muck everything up. Or both! The post Because the only thin … | Continue reading
Today, it’s easier than ever for a team to monitor software in production. But it's also easy to build up a lot of tech debt around monitoring. The post Monitoring debt builds up faster than software teams can pay it off appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
The benefits that come from serverless computing can be lost if you have to spend your time provisioning hardware for your database. The post Serverless scales well, but most databases don’t appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
What’s new in Next.js 13, how growing demand for front-end applications has made the React codebase “ginormous,” and what’s required to support a sustainable community of open-source contributors. The post You don’t have to build a browser in JavaScript anymore (Ep. 538) appeared … | Continue reading
That bootcamp may have taught you to write code that works. But the next level is to write code that works with other people. The post Coding 102: Writing code other people can read appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
New SO features, the politics of sudo, and the state of WebAssembly The post The Overflow #164: Is software getting worse? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
How can educators (and students) adapt to the inevitable rise of AI? The post Does your professor pass the Turing test? (Ep. 537) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
This affects the individual developer writing insecure code, the engineering team blindly trusting their dependencies, and the organization thinking that their best bet is to roll their own security controls. The post Three layers to secure a software development organization app … | Continue reading
CI/CD needs a CM—continuous merge—to get the SDLC moving smoothly. The post Engineering’s hidden bottleneck: pull requests appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
The home team discusses why it seems like everybody needs subtitles now, the AI that generates music from text, and a list of open-source data engineering projects for you to contribute to. The post The AI that writes music from text (Ep. 535) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blo … | Continue reading
We chat with Dr. Jeannette (Jamie) Garcia, Senior Research Manager of Quantum Applications and Software at IBM Quantum, about their 433 qubit quantum computer and what the real life applications of quantum computing are today. The post The nature of simulating nature: Q&A with I … | Continue reading
Less JS mess, cows vs. tornadoes, and PNG The post The Overflow #163: Most Loved vs. most questions appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
A seven-point manifesto for driving lasting innovation. The post Why developer experience is the key to better software, straight from the OCTO’s mouth (Ep. 534) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
Now you can discover relevant online courses from Pluralsight® and Udemy® on Stack Overflow. The post Announcing more ways to learn and grow your skills appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog. | Continue reading
It was a busy and successful quarter, so although my first update of 2023 takes place in a fundamentally different environment than my first of 2022, my optimism for the future has not changed. It’s simply joined by a dose of pragmatism. The post CEO update: Eliminating obstacle … | Continue reading
The home team convenes to talk about how tech layoffs are reshaping the industry, where to look for software engineering jobs beyond tech, the brain-computer interface that speeds up communication for people with paralysis, and Ben’s million-dollar game idea (free for the stealin … | Continue reading
For coders without an internet connection, an offline dataset provides an essential encyclopedia | Continue reading
Most organizations struggle to change their culture or find a formula for success in difficult-to-mature processes. They don't always understand their own systems. | Continue reading
A new platform promises to make building a robot as easy as crafting a smartphone app. | Continue reading
How long is too long to stay at a software development job? | Continue reading
Learn about our newly designed tool to help make your favorite questions and answers easier to find. | Continue reading
Do we work better when we outsource our memory to other tools? | Continue reading
Sponsored by Logitech Developers and their employers are constantly thinking about productivity. We partnered with Logitech to produce a four-part podcast series to chat about how your hardware and software work together to keep you in a flow state and make you more productive. E … | Continue reading
Is everybody coding on the weekends? Is everybody learning Rust? | Continue reading
Absent a time machine, telling others how to avoid my mistakes is the best I can do. | Continue reading
Some applications just lend themselves to certain programming paradigms. | Continue reading
Readable code is great, but not all code will be immediately readable. That's when you get your interrogation tools. | Continue reading
Will the programmers of tomorrow be shipping products written without touching too much code? | Continue reading
Can you control what you've already set free? | Continue reading
Ben and Matt discuss how tech workers’ preference for remote work is driving a near-exodus from cities like San Francisco, while smaller cities like Tulsa, Oklahoma are literally paying remote workers to relocate. | Continue reading
Your DevOps team might already be singing the praises of their observability platforms. But developers can benefit from them, too. | Continue reading
Spoken languages have distinct levels to measure skills; why shouldn't programming languages, too? | Continue reading
Turns out the robots are here to make your job more interesting. | Continue reading
Garbage collection? Manual allocation? When it comes to allocating memory for variables, Rust goes its own way. | Continue reading
Our April Fools joke has a nice side effect: it's easier to make Stack Exchange sites more distinct. | Continue reading
While Perl might seem like an outdated scripting language, it still has plenty of relevant uses today. | Continue reading
We neglected unit tests for a long time because our code base made them difficult. But now we're putting in the work to change that. | Continue reading
The state of software development is... | Continue reading
We neglected unit tests for a long time because our code base made them difficult. But now we're putting in the work to change that. | Continue reading
If you want to climb the career ladder to architect roles, you're going to have a broad base of competencies. Whether it's in cloud, security, or data science, we break down how you can land architect roles and the skills you need to learn to pay the bills. | Continue reading
WWDC 2022, first operating system, and 3D scenes from 2D images | Continue reading
The home team convenes to discuss the full public release of AI pair programmer GitHub Copilot, the VPN company that turned off subscriptions to protect its customers’ privacy, and the moral hazard of “free-to-play” apps and games. | Continue reading