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How to improve the developer experience in today’s ecommerce world
We walk through the process of designing an SDK that makes it easy for developers to integrate new technology into their e-commerce stack and is flexible enough to serve the needs of small businesses and large enterprises.
CEO Update: Building trust in AI is key to a thriving knowledge ecosystem
The internet and its business models are changing. Stack Overflow has been at the forefront, helping to shape the future of the web.
Community Products Roadmap Update, October 2024
We explore how our platform is evolving to support a new framework and business model, knowledge-as-a-service, and how we will incorporate this with our ongoing investment in our community.
Ongoing community data protection
Socially responsible use of community data needs to be mutually beneficial: the more potential partners are willing to contribute to community development, the more access to community content they receive.
Attribution as the foundation of developer trust
The entire AI ecosystem is at risk without trust.
Knowledge-as-a-service: The future of community business models
The internet is changing once again: it is becoming more fragmented as the separation between sources of knowledge and how users interact with that knowledge grows.
The changing state of the Internet and related business models
If you’re weary of reading about the latest chatbot innovations and the nine ways AI will change your daily life next year, this series of posts may be for you.
Masked self-attention: How LLMs learn relationships between tokens
Masked self-attention is the key building block that allows LLMs to learn rich relationships and patterns between the words of a sentence. Let’s build it together from scratch.
Where developers feel AI coding tools are working—and where they’re missing the mark
How are developers actually using GenAI-powered coding tools now that some of the initial hype has faded?
One of the best ways to get value for AI coding tools: generating tests
More code isn't always a good thing, but fewer bugs is.
The hidden cost of speed
It’s tempting to push projects out the door to woo and impress colleagues and supervisors, but the stark truth is that even the smallest projects should have proper review periods.
Best practices for cost-efficient Kafka clusters
In today's data-driven world, Apache Kafka has emerged as a cornerstone of modern data streaming, particularly with the rise of AI and the immense volumes of data it generates.
LLMs evolve quickly. Their underlying architecture, not so much.
The decoder-only transformer architecture is one of the most fundamental ideas in AI research.
Practical tips for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
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.
Navigating cities of code with Norris Numbers
Settling down in a new city (or codebase) is a marathon, not a sprint.
Accessibility by design: Building interfaces for everyone at Stack Overflow
How we took a proactive approach to making our sites and products accessible to all.
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Companies should work to keep you—and you shouldn’t stay somewhere that doesn’t fulfill you.
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I interviewed 100 DevTools founders and this is what I learned
There’s more to building for developers than just good code.
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HTML for people
A friendly approach to building websites for anyone who’s looking to get started.
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On the nature of time
What is "time"—from a computational perspective?
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The Open Source AI Definition RC1 is available for comments
Now is your chance to weigh in on what "open-source AI" actually means.
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The disappearance of an internet domain
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You don’t know jack about bandwidth
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