Stack Overflow Blog

code-for-a-living September 8, 2021

Observability is key to the future of software (and your DevOps career)

Observability platforms enable you to easily figure out what’s happening with every request and to identify the cause of issues fast. Learning the principles of observability and OpenTelemetry will set you apart from the crowd and provide you with a skill set that will be in increasing demand as more companies perform cloud migrations.

Greg Leffler Content Marketer

code-for-a-living September 6, 2021

Scaling front end design with a design system

If you're building the same UI components over and over, you might need a design system.

Mihir Patel Content Marketer

code-for-a-living September 4, 2021

Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 4

In the fourth and final lesson of the series, we’ll learn how to use SwiftUI navigation to present different views to the user. We’ll build a welcome screen with instructions for the user as well as a final screen with their results to the quiz. A user will also have the option to re-take the…

Ben Stone Content Marketer

stackoverflowknows September 2, 2021

Pandemic lockdowns accelerated cloud migration by three to four years

The number of questions across Stack Overflow surged, and new research solidifies this trend.

David Gibson and Ben Popper

August 30, 2021

The full data set for the 2021 Developer Survey now available!

Get your data here! Get your fresh hot 2021 Developer Survey data!

Ryan Donovan Content Marketer

code-for-a-living August 28, 2021

Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 3

In the third lesson of the series, we’ll continue to incorporate the MVVM architecture and build a view model for our quiz app which mediates communication between the view and the model. Additionally, we’ll build a game model structure and add more questions and functionality for new questions to appear as the user advances through…

Ben Stone Content Marketer

code-for-a-living August 25, 2021

Diagnose engineering process failures with data visualization

Here's three areas where data visualization can make your engineering life easier.

Ian Johnson Content Marketer

code-for-a-living August 23, 2021

You’re living in the Metaverse, you just don’t know it yet.

The concept of the Metaverse was coined by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson decades ago. Have we reached some meaningful inflection point in our journey towards this dream?

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living August 21, 2021

Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 2

In the second lesson of the series, we’ll add state to our quiz app so that it can show users whether they answered correctly. We’ll also build out a model for our quiz questions, and add a settings tab. Here are some Stack Overflow questions related to the work we did in today’s session: What…

Ben Stone Content Marketer

community August 19, 2021

Celebrating the Stack Exchange sites that turned 10 years old

We're more than just StackOverflow.com; here's a few of the sites in the Stack Exchange network that have been around for a decade!

Ben Popper and Juan M

code-for-a-living August 16, 2021

Using stretch work assignments to help engineers grow

Stretch work assignments are tasks or projects that are a bit beyond an engineer’s current skill or knowledge level and that allow them to improve and learn new things. When done correctly these assignments serve a dual purpose of providing learning opportunities for your engineers, while at the same time completing a project or task that will help your company.

Tanaka Mutakwa Content Marketer