The home team chats with Adam Lear, a staff software engineer on the public platform at Stack Overflow. They discuss GitHub’s move to put prebuilt Codespaces into public beta, the people paying millions for virtual real estate, and the downsides of microservices and CI/CD for developer productivity. The post Codespaces moves into public beta, the virtual real estate worth millions, and how microservices and CI/CD can hurt productivity (Ep. 425) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
AI and nanotechnology are often seen as science fiction. But together they are finding real world applications. The post AI and nanotechnology are working together to solve real-world problems appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
This week: our new crew of podcast hosts, the CEO who still takes his turn on PagerDuty, and the existential horror of working with abysmal code when a deadline looms. The post The Overflow #117: New podcast hosts, the CEO on PagerDuty, and horrible code on a deadline appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
Ceora, Ben, and Matt talk with Danielle Mann, Director of Engineering at Apollo GraphQL, about how an MIT program for high school girls helped kick off her career, her path from IC to engineering manager, and how Apollo became what it is today. The post McDonald’s is to Chipotle what REST APIs are to GraphQL (Ep. 424) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/18/mcdonalds-is-to-chipotle-what-rest-apis-are-to-graphql-ep-424/
Turns out developers and plants need mostly the same things. The post New data: What makes developers happy at work appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/17/new-data-what-makes-developers-happy-at-work/
From camping to tenure to memory, the sites turning ten this quarter cover a lot of ground. The post Celebrating the Stack Exchange sites that turned ten years old in Q1 2022 appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
The new home team—Matt, Ceora, and Cassidy—discuss Visual Studio’s 25th birthday, how to create a sustainable revenue source for open-source frameworks, why open-source business models contribute to a lack of diversity, and why NFTs are so unpopular with K-pop fans. The post Visual Studio turns 25, new ideas for supporting open source, and of course…NFTs (Ep. 423) appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/15/visual-studio-turns-25-new-ideas-for-supporting-open-so
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.
