Lisbeth Kaufman, Head of Climate Tech at AWS, sits down with Ryan to talk about her work helping climate tech startups get off the ground and the role startups can play in addressing the climate change crisis. She highlights a few projects to get excited about, including ones foc … | Continue reading
Some high-level takeaways, with more to come. | Continue reading
In our very first episode, Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar talks to Don Woodlock, Head of Global Healthcare Solutions at InterSystems, about the challenges in their AI journey and the critical role of a robust data strategy in any successful AI initiative. | Continue reading
Evaluating question quality and determining the appropriate feedback required some classic ML techniques in addition to our GenAI solution. | Continue reading
Ryan welcomes Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO of Warp, to the show to talk about reimagining the terminal. They also discuss why Warp was built in Rust (“it’s definitely harder”), how AI is transforming developer tools, and what Zach (formerly a principal engineer at Google) learned … | Continue reading
More developers are sandwiched between caring for kids and older relatives. What does this mean for them and for the industry as a whole? | Continue reading
Jeremy “Jezz” Kellway, VP of Engineering for Analytics and Data & AI at EDB (Enterprise Database), joins Ryan for a conversation about Postgres and AI. They unpack how Postgres is becoming the standard database for AI applications, the importance of managing unstructured data, an … | Continue reading
What are the capabilities, constraints, and benefits of running AI models of edge devices? | Continue reading
Our latest Enterprise release brings exciting new features designed to enhance collaboration, streamline user management, and expand API capabilities. | Continue reading
Software security expert Tanya Janca, author of Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding and Staff DevRel at AppSec company Semgrep, joins Ryan to talk about secure coding practices. Tanya unpacks the significance of input validation, the challenges of trusting data sources, and the int … | Continue reading
Olga Beregovaya, VP of AI at Smartling, joins Ryan and Ben to explore the evolution and specialization of language models in AI. They discuss the shift from rule-based systems to transformer models, the importance of fine-tuning for translation tasks, and the role of human transl … | Continue reading
For those that missed our February AMA, let’s discuss the future of Stack Overflow | Continue reading
Want to train a specialized LLM on your own data? The easiest way to do this is with low rank adaptation (LoRA), but many variants of LoRA exist. | Continue reading
Animesh Mishra, senior solutions engineer at Diffblue, joins Ryan and Ben to talk about how AI agents can help you get better test coverage. Animesh explains how agentic AI can expedite and enhance automation and refactoring processes, how Diffblue leverages machine learning tech … | Continue reading
Ryan talks with senior engineering manager Caitlin Weaver about how her childhood fascination with computers led to her leading CLEAR’s Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team, her experiences in DevOps, the role of empathy in engineering management, and how the platform engineerin … | Continue reading
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter. | Continue reading
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter. | Continue reading
How a theater major became a fullstack engineer building software to manage climate change. | Continue reading
Minh Nguyen, VP of Engineering at Transcend, joins Ryan for a conversation about the complexities of privacy and consent in tech, from the challenges organizations face in managing data privacy to the importance of consent management tools to the evolving landscape of privacy reg … | Continue reading
Ken Stott, Field CTO of API platform Hasura, tells Ryan about the data doom loop: the concept that organizations are spending lots of money on data systems without seeing improvements in data quality or efficiency. Their conversation touches on the challenges of data management, … | Continue reading
APIs have steadily become the backbone of AI systems, connecting data and tools seamlessly. Discover how they can drive scalable and secure training for AI models and intelligence automation. | Continue reading
Can your database handle a billion customers per month? | Continue reading
Sagar Batchu, CEO and cofounder of API tooling company Speakeasy, talks with Ryan about the evolving API landscape, AI integration, the role of human technologists in an increasingly automated environment, and what people building APIs right now should keep in mind. | Continue reading
Can an org automate security, change its culture to up their dev velocity, and stave off burnout? | Continue reading
Ben and Ryan chat with Babak Behzad, senior engineering manager at Verkada, about running a pipeline that vectorizes 25,000 images per second into a custom-built vector database. They discuss whether the speed is due to technical brains or brawn, the benefits of processing on dev … | Continue reading
Mark your calendars to learn more about Stack’s Future—Feb 26th. | Continue reading
Jaime Torrealba, a frontend developer currently at Push Security, joins Ryan to talk about 3D graphics and web development. Their conversation ranges from the evolution of technologies like WebGL and WebGPU to the importance of performance optimization for different devices to th … | Continue reading
An update on recent launches and the upcoming roadmap. | Continue reading
Ryan is joined by Fynn Glover (CEO) and Ben Papillon (CTO), cofounders of Schematic, for a conversation about managing feature flags in software development. They explore theoretical and practical applications of feature flags, the issue of tech debt, and how orgs could manage en … | Continue reading
The first release of the year is packed with features to make your knowledge-sharing community better. | Continue reading
New year, new approach. | Continue reading
Ben and Ryan are joined by RJ Tuit, Head of UI Platform and Client Architect at ClickUp, formerly an engineering director at Microsoft. They talk about ClickUp’s vision for a comprehensive productivity platform, the complexities of measuring productivity and UX in software develo … | Continue reading
We’re excited to announce our 16th annual Stack Gives Back campaign donations. | Continue reading
John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, joins Ben and Ryan for a conversation about the latest trends in internet usage highlighted in Cloudflare's 2024 Year in Review report. | Continue reading
Is anyone designing software where failures don't have consequences? | Continue reading
Kyle welcomes Wes Copeland, a senior frontend engineer at Apartment Advisor, to the interview. They talk about how good test coverage helps you develop software faster, the benefits of low-fidelity prototypes, and why he prefers to avoid vibes-driven development. | Continue reading
Ben and Ryan talk with Geoffrey (Jef) Huck, a software developer turned public speaking coach, about the importance of soft skills in the tech industry—in particular, speaking and communication skills. Their conversation touches on how Huck’s experiences with anxiety shaped his e … | Continue reading
Ryan talks with Sterling Chin, a senior developer advocate at Postman, about the intersection of APIs and AI. They cover the emergence of AI APIs, the importance of quality APIs for AI integrations, and the evolving role of GraphQL in this new landscape. Sterling explains how som … | Continue reading
In this episode, Ben and Ryan sit down with Inbal Shani, Chief Product Officer and Head of R&D at Twilio. They talk about how Twilio is incorporating AI into its offerings, the enormous importance of data quality in achieving high-quality responses from AI, the challenges of inte … | Continue reading
Have an idea? Turn it into a prototype first. | Continue reading
Bottom line: let React do the React things. | Continue reading
Happy New Year! In this episode, Ryan talks with Jetify founder and CEO Daniel Loreto, a former engineering lead at Google and Twitter, about what AI applications have in common with Google Search. They also discuss the challenges inherent in developing AI systems, why a data-dri … | Continue reading
This year, technologies such as JavaScript and PostgreSQL remain most popular, Rust and Markdown remain most admired, developers are most frustrated by technical debt at work, and they don’t see AI as a threat to their jobs. | Continue reading
It’s easy to generate code, but not so easy to generate good code. | Continue reading
During the holidays, we’re releasing some highlights from a year full of conversations with developers and technologists. Enjoy! We’ll see you in 2025. | Continue reading
Is your preferred programming language a matter of national security? | Continue reading
A look at some of the current thinking around chunking data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. | Continue reading
There’s no silver bullet for this type of ghost. | Continue reading