
After two decades of crafting code, even solo developers need good comments to understand what they wrote in the first place. The post The Overflow #84 and 85: How Dwarf Fortress is built appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/06/the-overflow-84-and-85-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/

From Oracle to AWS to MongoDB, Mark Porter has played a pivotal role in the history and development of software databases. The post Podcast 364: What’s the blast radius when your database goes down? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/06/podcast-364-mark-porter-mongodb-database/

We learned a lot from the more than 80,000 respondents who took the time to answer our questionnaire. The post Podcast 363: Highlights from our 2021 Developer Survey appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/03/podcast-363-highlights-from-our-2021-developer-survey/

It's a big day at Stack Overflow! Our Prosus deal has closed and our latest Dev Survey is live. The post Communities are a catalyst for technology development appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/02/q3-2021-ceo-blog-post-communities-catalyst/

Our data reveals some fascinating trends in education, remote work, and web frameworks. The post The 2021 Stack Overflow Developer Survey is here! appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/08/02/2021-stack-overflow-developer-survey-results/

We dig into discrete mathematics, differential privacy, and homomorphic encryption. The post Podcast 632: Exploring the cutting edge of privacy and encryption with Very Good Security appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.

Here's a brief recap of what we accomplished in Q2, along with details on our Q3 plans. The post The Loop: Our Community & Public Platform Roadmap for Q3 2021 appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/29/the-loop-our-community-public-platform-roadmap-for-q3-2021/

Dwarf Fortress is one of those oddball passion projects that’s broken into Internet consciousness. It’s a free game where you play either an adventurer or a fortress full of dwarves in a randomly generated fantasy world. The simulation runs deep, with new games creating multiple civilizations with histories, mythologies, and artifacts. I reached out to him to see how he’s managed a single, growing codebase over 15+ years, the perils of pathing, and debugging dead cats. Our conversation below has

We explore Stack Overflow's journey into the world of Kubernetes and containers with one of our software engineers, Max Horstmann. The post Podcast 361: Why startups should use Kubernetes from day one appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/27/podcast-361-why-startups-should-use-kubernetes-from-day-one/

Here's a detailed look into how we designed Collectives, starting from the initial ideation to all the decisions and considerations that led to what it is today. The post A design deep dive into how we created Collectives appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/26/a-design-deep-dive-into-how-we-created-collectives/