Why the developers who use Rust love it so much
Here’s why Rust gets so much love, straight from the Rustaceans themselves.
The Overflow #24: Survey says…
June 2020 Welcome to ISSUE #24 of the Overflow! Break into a two-four and read the newsletter by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. The survey results are in! Nullable types are out! Eye contact is back! From the blog The 2020 Developer Survey results…
Why is Kubernetes getting so popular?
At the time of this article, Kubernetes is about six years old, and over the last two years, it has risen in popularity to consistently be one of the most loved platforms. This year, it comes in as the number three most loved platform. If you haven’t heard about Kubernetes yet, it’s a platform that…
The Overflow #23: Nerding out over a puzzle
May 2020 Welcome to ISSUE #23 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. Check the wealth of tiny startups doing good work, the puzzle of keyfiles, and the wonder of the miracle sudoku. From the blog You want efficient…
The 2020 Developer Survey results are here!
We're excited to share the results of our 10th annual developer survey! 65,000 developers shared their thoughts on the state of software today.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
The Loop, May 2020: Dark Mode
We received a bunch of requests to share how we use our feedback framework on specific features. We got excited about this, and given that we just released Dark Mode (and “Ultra Dark Mode”), we thought this was a great opportunity to show how we arrived at our solution.
Sara Chipps
Director of Product, Community
Deno v1.0.0 released to solve Node.js design flaws
Node.js creator, Ryan Dahl, left the Node.js project in 2012 and started working with it again around six years later. In using it again, he found a number of design flaws that bothered him. So he decided to create a new implementation of his original idea: Deno, which released V1.0.0 last week.
The Overflow #22: The power of sharing
May 2020 Welcome to ISSUE #22 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. We’re pondering the benefits of sharing your work, pushing the limits of children’s names, and praising accessibility in the time of Covid-19. From the blog Ensuring…
Good coders borrow, great coders steal
Copying and pasting can be dangerous, but then again, so can many aspects of software development when done incautiously. In this post, I’ll take a look at what code copying actually means for software development, what good code theft means, and the pitfalls of copying badly.
You want efficient application scaling? Go serverless!
Today we’re seeing another shift from virtual machines to containers. Containers are virtual runtime environments running on top of the operating system kernel that emulates the operating system itself. That’s where the serverless model comes in.
The Overflow #21: The way forward
May 2020 Welcome to ISSUE #21 of The Overflow! Cheers! Have a beverage with our newsletter by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. Behold! Discussing privacy concerns in contract tracing apps, a lonely sample size of one, and email sender reputation. From the blog A…