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Jun 4
Operating System Management
The operating system is the foundation of IT infrastructure. It affects everything built on top of it. Take good care of it, and you're on your way to a smooth platform for your application. Neglect to maintain it? Well, you might run into some problems. Scott McBrien, Technical ... Show More
45m 19s
May 21
Return To The Root
What does it really take to build, maintain, and secure the invisible backbone of modern technology? In this season of Compiler, we are breaking down the reality of IT infrastructure, and examine how AI is changing the game. Host Emily Bock is joined by Jennifer Scalf as she expl ... Show More
55s
Apr 2
Collaboration In Product Security
How do security professionals work together to manage the known and the unknown? The Compiler team wraps up their exploration of product security by focusing on how teams across companies and projects work together effectively. Jeremy West returns to the show to share how transpa ... Show More
20m 24s
Oct 2022
The people who make your apps go to Stack Overflow for answers – here's how it works
Today I'm talking to Prashanth Chandrasekar the CEO of Stack Overflow – a highly specialized kind of social network, with a really unique business model. If you don't know Stack Overflow is a major part of the modern software development landscape: it’s where developers come toge ... Show More
1h 6m
Jan 2021
Our stack is HTML and CSS
<p>The title of this week's episode comes from a <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673495" target="_blank">Hacker News thread</a> where Guillermo argued that the complexity of front end performance goes beyond simplifying your stack to bare web primitives.</p><p>You ... Show More
28m 16s
Mar 2023
Let’s talk large language models
<p>Our recent Pulse Survey showed how technologists visiting Stack Overflow feel about emergent technologies. The consensus is clear: AI assistants will soon be everywhere, and developers aren’t sure how they feel about that. Check out the <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2023 ... Show More
24m 7s
Aug 2023
Job description: professional workplace bestie
<p>Stack Overflow’s Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) focus on aspects of employees’ personhood, “who you are outside of your role, who you bring to every single room that you enter,” Joey explains. Among our ERGs are Black and Brown, LGBTQ+, MIND (mental illness and neurodiversity ... Show More
28m 51s
Sep 2017
Podcast #116 - What is Technology? Do we even know?
<p>Today we welcome Jonathan Lipps, Dir. of Open Source at Sauce Labs, to chat (and sing) about some of the philosophies behind the tech that we all use every day. Also Stack Overflow PM Joe Friend is here to continue the conversation about improving the user experience on SO.</p ... Show More
53m 58s
Jun 2024
Say goodbye to "junior" engineering roles
<p>How would all this work in practice? Of course, any metric you set out can easily become a target that developers look to game. With Snapshot Reviews, the goal is to get a high level overview of a software team’s total activity and then use AI to measure the complexity of the ... Show More
29 m
Apr 2011
Stack Overflow Podcast - Episode #62
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Jun 2023
Throwing away the script on testing
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Mar 2021
How we keep Stack Overflow's codebase clean and modern
22m 14s
Jul 2020
Becoming a Coder
Command line heroes are software engineers, developers, programmers, systems administrators—coders. That variety in coding careers is almost as varied as the paths coders take to land their jobs. Saron Yitbarek and Clive Thompson start the season by exploring some ways coders st ... Show More
33m 18s
The software stack is like an onion. Or a sheet cake. Or lasagna. Or is it? It’s often described as having layers that sit on top of each other. The reality is much more complicated—and learning about it can help any tech career.
The Great Stack Debate is the first episode in Compiler’s series on the software stack. We call it Stack/Unstuck. We explore eac ... Show More
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<p><a href="https://sofy.ai/" target="_blank">Sofy</a> is a no-code test automation platform for mobile apps. <a href="https://sofy.ai/products/sofysense/" target="_blank">SofySense</a> is their OpenAI-powered AI assistant. See what they’re up to on their <a href="https://sofy.ai ... Show More
<p>You can find Roberta on <a href="https://twitter.com/rla4" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. For anyone who understands Portuguese, you can also check out her <a href="https://hipsters.tech/" target="_blank">podcast</a>. </p><p>Check out Roberta's recent <a href="https://stackoverf ... Show More