Sharding was one of the first ways databases were distributed to improve performance. Recent innovations have made it one of the best. The post How sharding a database can make it faster appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/14/how-sharding-a-database-can-make-it-faster/
This week: how to stop aggregating away the signal in your data, the hipster programming paradigm, and the junior software engineer making all the architecture decisions at their startup (are they working hard enough?). The post The Overflow #116: Stop aggregating away the signal in your data appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
Ben talks with entrepreneur and venture capitalist David Pakman, who recently left his longtime role as a partner at veteran VC firm Venrock to become managing partner at CoinFund. The post Crypto feels broken. That’s because it’s the internet circa 1996 (Ep. 422) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
When rewriting software in a new language, how do you test that your new and old programs do the same thing? The post Rewriting Bash scripts in Go using black box testing appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/09/rewriting-bash-scripts-in-go-using-black-box-testing/
We've got a new team of hosts and some big plans for the future. The post Welcoming the new crew of Stack Overflow podcast hosts appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/08/welcoming-the-new-crew-of-stack-overflow-podcast-hosts/
Welcome to the new Stack Overflow podcast. For our relaunch episode, the home team covers code scanning for security vulnerabilities in open-source registries, whether high-profile skills training programs from Google and Amazon really address systemic inequity in tech (spoiler: probably not), and how a James Bond character sparked Matt’s interest in security. The post Who says HTML and CSS aren’t real programming? (Ep. 421) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
Welcome to ISSUE #115 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: what you give up when you move into management, an AI bot that’s better than you at answering technical interview questions, and resources to help with monorepos and functional programming. The post The Overflow #115: What engineering managers give up, an AI bot that can ace technical interviews, and a one-stop monorepo resource
The team talks with Expensify CEO David Barrett about how computer graphics and video games inspired his career, how Expensify built their stack, and why this CEO still takes his turn on PagerDuty. The post Why David Barrett, CEO of Expensify, still takes his turn on PagerDuty (Ep. 420) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
Our Content Health feature helps intelligently identify and surface potentially outdated or inaccurate knowledge—content that needs to be reviewed in order to keep your knowledge base healthy. The post What’s new in Content Health? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/03/whats-new-in-content-health/
By aggregating our data in an effort to simplify it, we lose the signal and the context we need to make sense of what we’re seeing. The post Stop aggregating away the signal in your data appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/03/stop-aggregating-away-the-signal-in-your-data/
