A collaborative hub for infrastructure as code
Infrastructure as code is growing in popularity, but to adopt it at scale, organizations need better ways to collaborate and automate it.
Ryan Donovan
Ryan Donovan helps run editorial for the Stack Overflow blog. He's spend over 15 years as a technical writer embedded in software development teams across multiple industries. He lives in New York City and hopes to meet your dog some day.
The Overflow #110: The Log4j vulnerability by the numbers
Welcome to ISSUE #110 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: making hard decisions about optimizing software quality attributes, exploring whether running a random search 60 times is as good as a fancy algorithm, and the wrong way to learn…
Using synthetic data to power machine learning while protecting user privacy
On this episode, we talk to John Myers, CTO and cofounder of Gretel, a company that provides synthetic data for training machine learning models without exposing any of their customers personally identifiable information.
Podcast 406: Making Agile work for data science
Data scientists and engineers don’t always play well together. We discuss an approach to your tech stack that can bring them together.
The Overflow #107: Our top five blog posts of 2021
Welcome to ISSUE #107 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. New year, new newsletter! We’re getting back into gear, so please enjoy our top five blog posts, including our number one, which dug deep into the mountain of code that is…
700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built
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 been edited for clarity.
The Overflow #106: The most lightweight “framework”: VanillaJS
Welcome to ISSUE #106 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. While we are on holidays this week, please enjoy the first half of our top ten blog posts of the year, the final podcast of 2021, and the fallout of the…
Best practices can slow your application down
In order to get the most performant site possible when building the codebase for our public Stack Overflow site, we didn’t always follow best practices.
Podcast 402: Teaching developers about the most lightweight web “framework” around, VanillaJS
How teaching beginners can highlight the concepts that you've internalized too much.
Skills, not schools, are in demand among developers
College isn't the only way to get a dev job these days. And employers increasingly don't look for degrees.
The Overflow #103: Does modern parenting require spyware?
Welcome to ISSUE #103 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: Get your metrics straight to speed up product delivery, eat your cereals to found civilization, and dazzle ‘em with animated website entrances. From the blog The four engineering metrics…