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Welcome Valued Associate Alex Miller!

Yup. The team has now hit 32 human beings (plus a lot of unicorns and bacon). Our latest addition is Alex Miller: We haven’t quite figured out an official title for Alex yet… The job description was “Sidekick to the CEO” and the idea was that he would follow me around and do all kinds…

Joel Spolsky Co-founder & Former Chairman of the Board

Yup. The team has now hit 32 human beings (plus a lot of unicorns and bacon). Our latest addition is Alex Miller:

Alex Miller

We haven’t quite figured out an official title for Alex yet… The job description was “Sidekick to the CEO” and the idea was that he would follow me around and do all kinds of random yet useful projects that have been stagnating for quite a while. In the coming months you’ll see several amazing things that Alex has started doing, including the resurgence of Stack Overflow DevDays, the renewal of my podcast with Jeff, and an amazing thing, still secret, involving unicorns. For those of you who watched The West Wing, Alex will be responsible for all the roles that were played by actors other than Martin Sheen. That means he’ll have to walk briskly through the halls of Stack Overflow talking to himself and carrying paper.

Alex comes to us from a stint as Director of Marketing at Yext, but many of you already know him as previous Sidekick to Jason Calacanis. Welcome, Alex!

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se-stackoverflow April 11, 2023

Going stateless with authorization-as-a-service (Ep. 559)

The home team welcomes Alex Olivier, cofounder and product lead at Cerbos, for a conversation about how to centralize business logic in a microservices environment, the value of stateless applications, and what’s under Cerbos’s hood.