On today’s episode we chat with Pradeep Vincent, Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Architect for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or OCI for short. He shares experiences from his time as an engineer at IBM and what it was like to be a senior engineer working on AWS during the early years of its development as a commercial product. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/03/pradeep-vincent-oracle-oci-cloud-redundancy-failover/
Today we chat with Austin Emmons, an iOS developer at Embrace, where he spent time rebuilding their SDK to work with OpenTelemetry. He discusses the challenge of tracking performance and watching for edge cases when your app is deployed across dozens of devices with enormous variability in their hardware, software, and network capabilities. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/30/mobile-observability-open-telemetry-embrace-ios-android-austin-emmons/
Today we chat with Avthar Sewrathan, AI Lead at Timescale, about adapting developers’ favorite database management system, Postgres, to support a range of new technologies involved in the GenAI ecosystem, especially vector databases. Avthar details his long history with Postgres and how clients are weighing the build vs. buy question when it comes to choosing a database to support their newly minted GenAI initiatives. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/27/postgres-genai-vector-databases-timesca
The decoder-only transformer architecture is one of the most fundamental ideas in AI research. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/22/llms-evolve-quickly-their-underlying-architecture-not-so-much/
On today’s episode, we chat with a listener, Geshan Manandhar, who has been working in the world of software engineering for two decades. He started programming in a small village in Kathmandu during the days of dial-up. Since then he’s worked across three continents and today is a senior software engineer at Simply Wall Street. He gives his advice on how developers can change with the times and what it’s like to move into the era of serverless containers. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/23/e
On today’s episode, we chat with Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js and Deno. He explains why he feels the first version of Deno has reached certain limits and what he and his team are doing with Deno 2.0 to scale up the module system and ensure it's a great tool for the modern web. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/20/ryan-dahl-deno-20-scale-improve-npm-nodejs/
On today's episode we chat with Ilya Grigorik, a Distinguished Engineer and Technical Advisor to the CEO at Shopify. From battling hordes of bots trying to scalp seats before humans can get their hands on concert tickets, to automatically handling relevant tax codes and regulations across countries and states so small merchants can focus on their business, Ilya shares some of the projects he enjoys most and the challenges that make e-commerce interesting for software developers. https://stackov
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is one of the best (and easiest) ways to specialize an LLM over your own data, but successfully applying RAG in practice involves more than just stitching together pretrained models. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/15/practical-tips-for-retrieval-augmented-generation-rag/
Settling down in a new city (or codebase) is a marathon, not a sprint. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/13/navigating-cities-of-code-with-norris-numbers/
On this episode, Ryan and Cassidy talk to Satish Jayanthi, CTO and co-founder of Coalesce, about the growth of metadata and how you can manage it, especially in systems using generative AI. They explore the importance in providing context and transparency to data, how metadata can be generated automatically, and the future of metadata including knowledge graphs. https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/13/satish-jayanthi-coalesce-ai-metadata-etl/
