Ryan Donovan, Stack Overflow Blog

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code-for-a-living March 24, 2021

Forget Moore’s Law. Algorithms drive technology forward

Moore's law enables great progress, but often it's the underlying algorithms that drive computer science forward.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living March 3, 2021

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.

Roberta Arcoverde and Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living February 11, 2021

Why are video calls so tiring? You might have opposing cultural styles

Video meetings aren’t ideal, but we can make them a little easier by understanding that there are multiple ways of interacting with your fellow humans.

Ryan Donovan

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code-for-a-living February 1, 2021

Learn to program BASIC with a Twitter bot

Turns out you can do a lot in 280 characters.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living January 14, 2021

Have the tables turned on NoSQL?

NoSQL was the next big thing in system architecture in 2011, but overall interest in it has plateaued recently. What is NoSQL, what does it have to do with modern development, and is it worth implementing in your project?

John Biggs and Ryan Donovan

newsletter January 1, 2021

The Overflow #54: Talking crypto

Welcome to ISSUE #54 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. While we are off for the holidays, we still have some sweet newsletter presents to give: your digital identity and you, dealing with sudden bursts of errors, and the secret origin…

Ryan Donovan and Cassidy Williams