The Overflow #118: What makes developers happy at work?
This week: what makes developers happy at work, how sharding a database can make it faster, and whether it’s a good idea to intentionally insert bugs into your code.
Eira May
Eira May is a writer and editor at Stack Overflow. She has worked in content and product marketing at Auth0, Vacasa, and Jama Software, and once wrote a dissertation on alternate histories. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Human laziness is the ultimate security threat (Ep. 427)
The home team talks with Guillermo Rauch, CEO and cofounder of Vercel and cocreator of Next.js, and Sam Lambert, formerly VP of Engineering at Github and now CEO of PlanetScale. They cover how Vercel and PlanetScale are making the web more accessible to developers, the future of web development for professional programmers, and why human laziness is the ultimate security threat.
Eira May
Content Writer
Codespaces moves into public beta, the virtual real estate worth millions, and how microservices and CI/CD can hurt productivity (Ep. 425)
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.
Eira May
Content Writer
The Overflow #117: New podcast hosts, the CEO on PagerDuty, and horrible code on a deadline
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.
McDonald’s is to Chipotle what REST APIs are to GraphQL (Ep. 424)
Ceora, Ben, and Matt talk with Danielle Man, 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.
Eira May
Content Writer
Visual Studio turns 25, new ideas for supporting open source, and of course…NFTs (Ep. 423)
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.
Eira May
Content Writer
The Overflow #116: Stop aggregating away the signal in your data
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?).
Crypto feels broken. That’s because it’s the internet circa 1996 (Ep. 422)
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.
Eira May
Content Writer
Who says HTML and CSS aren’t real programming? (Ep. 421)
Welcome to the new Stack Overflow podcast. For our relaunch episode, the home team covers code scanning for security vulnerabilities in open-source registries, whether high-profile skills training programs from Google and Amazon really address systemic inequity in tech (spoiler: probably not), and how a James Bond character sparked Matt’s interest in security.
Eira May
Content Writer
The Overflow #115: What engineering managers give up, an AI bot that can ace technical interviews, and a one-stop monorepo resource
Welcome to ISSUE #115 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: what you give up when you move into management, an AI bot that’s better than you at answering technical interview questions, and resources to help with monorepos and functional programming.
Why David Barrett, CEO of Expensify, still takes his turn on PagerDuty (Ep. 420)
The team talks with Expensify CEO David Barrett about how computer graphics and video games inspired his career, how Expensify built their stack, and why this CEO still takes his turn on PagerDuty.
Eira May
Content Writer