Stack Overflow Blog

code-for-a-living July 21, 2022

Design patterns for asynchronous API communication

An event-driven architecture can reduce dependencies, increase safety, and make your application easy to scale. But designing your systems and topics is a non-trivial task

Daniel Orner

code-for-a-living July 18, 2022

How observability is redefining the roles of developers

Your DevOps team might already be singing the praises of their observability platforms. But developers can benefit from them, too.

Shai Almog

so-for-teams July 12, 2022

Stack Overflow joins Microsoft Azure Marketplace as ChatOps rise in popularity

Stack Overflow for Teams is now available within the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

Joy Liuzzo

design July 11, 2022

Stack Exchange sites are getting prettier faster: Introducing Themes

Our April Fools joke has a nice side effect: it's easier to make Stack Exchange sites more distinct.

Piper Lawson Director of Product Design

code-for-a-living July 6, 2022

Why Perl is still relevant in 2022

While Perl might seem like an outdated scripting language, it still has plenty of relevant uses today.

Girish Venkatachalam

code-for-a-living July 4, 2022

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.

Wouter de Kort

The four hosts of the podcasts talking on video

company July 1, 2022

Seeing is believing: The Stack Overflow Podcast now available as video

Listen up, you can see us now. The Stack Overflow podcast is coming to video.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living June 29, 2022

Skilling up to architect: What you need to land high-paying IT roles

If you want to climb the career ladder to architect roles, you're going to have a broad base of competencies. Whether it's in cloud, security, or data science, we break down how you can land architect roles and the skills you need to learn to pay the bills.