How Stack Overflow is leveling up its unit testing game
We neglected unit tests for a long time because our code base made them difficult. But now we're putting in the work to change that.
Engineering
Keep tabs on what our engineering team is working on.
Stack under attack: what we learned about handling DDoS attacks
When the bots came for us, we strengthened our defenses. Here's what we learned about parrying a few DDoS attacks.
Josh Zhang
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Securing the data in your online code repository is a shared responsibility
What would you do if your code repositories suddenly stopped working?
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.
CSS in SVG in CSS: Shipping confetti to Stack Overflow’s design system
Stack Overflow celebrates site accomplishments with confetti in multiple places. That means it's time to formalize it in our design system.
Aaron Shekey
Principal Product Designer, Design Systems
Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python – part 2
Investigate a dataset with summary statistics and some basic data visualizations using the Python libraries NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, and Seaborn.
A deeper dive into our May 2019 security incident
We take a detailed look at a hacking incident that gave a user unauthorized access to our code and data.
Dean Ward
Principal Developer - Former
Failing over without falling over
You’ve gone through the motions and play-acted a disaster recovery scenario, but despite spending a lot on the production, it’s not real. What you have is a fairy tale: “Once upon a time, in theory, if everything works perfectly, we have a plan to survive the disasters we thought of in advance.” In practice, it’s more likely to be a nightmare.
How we built it: our new Articles feature for Stack Overflow for Teams
Roberta Arcoverde, tech lead for Stack Overflow Teams, provides a deep dive into the decisions that shaped the architecture of Articles, an entirely new content type.
Roberta Arcoverde
Principal Software Developer
Podcast 229: Jokes On Us
Tune in for part two of our conversation with Adam Lear and Jon Chan, Stack Overflow developers working on our public sites and community tools.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
The Unfriendly Robot: Automatically flagging unwelcoming comments
Unfriendly comments are an issue in our system because of the effect that their tone has on their recipient’s and future readers’ willingness to contribute to Stack Overflow. The solution to these issues isn’t to argue about circumstance or intent. The only remaining option is to work on the comments themselves.
