The Stack Overflow Podcast

se-stackoverflow May 24, 2022

Turns out the Great Resignation goes both ways (Ep. 445)

The home team covers the hiring freezes and layoffs hitting the tech sector, burnout among freelancers and applicants for tech jobs, the dubious ethics of unpaid internships, and how to make Twitter safer by preemptively blocking people.

Eira May Content Writer

se-stackoverflow May 20, 2022

Make your open-source project public before you’re ready (Ep. 444)

The home team talks about the past, present, and future of crypto; good reasons to go public with your open-source project before you think you should; and the importance of test-driven development.

Eira May Content Writer

podcast May 18, 2022

Building out a managed Kubernetes service is a bigger job than you think (Ep.443)

Infrastructure as code is complicated enough, but building a managed IAC service is a whole other level of complicated.

Ryan Donovan

podcast May 17, 2022

Open-source is winning over developers and investors (Ep. 442)

Matt and Cassidy talk about the open-source startups winning investors and attention, why even small contributions to open-source projects are important, and how founders can encourage those contributions.

Ben Popper Director of Content

se-stackoverflow May 13, 2022

Software is adopted, not sold (Ep. 441)

Ben and Cassidy chat with Ian Tien, CEO and cofounder, and Corey Hulen, CTO and cofounder of Mattermost, an open-source platform for developer collaboration.

Eira May Content Writer

se-stackoverflow May 10, 2022

Feeling burned out? You’re not the only one (Ep. 440)

Friend of the show Jon Chan, Stack Overflow’s Director of Engineering, Public Platform, joins the home team to talk about burnout: what it is, how to prevent it, and how to recover.

Eira May Content Writer

podcast May 5, 2022

Why security needs to shift left into the SDLC (Ep. 439)

We chat with Michael Chenetz, Head of Developer Content at Cisco, about the importance of bringing security into the discussion very early in the SDLC.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast May 3, 2022

What counts as art, anyway? (Ep. 438)

The home team talks about Elon Musk’s big purchase, what counts as art, and why engineers become managers for the wrong reasons.

Eira May Content Writer

podcast April 29, 2022

Would you trust an AI to be your eyes? (Ep. 437)

The home team is joined by friend of the show Adam Lear, a staff software engineer on the public platform at Stack Overflow, to discuss AR glasses that help the blind navigate IRL and how we might reimagine cities for remote work.

Eira May Content Writer

podcast April 26, 2022

Meet the design system that lets us customize and theme Stack Overflow (Ep. 436)

The home team is joined by two folks who help us build and design our frontend platform: Ben Kelly and Aaron Shekey. They talk about the genesis of Stacks, Stack Overflow’s design system; this year’s April Fool’s Day gag; and the power of a consistent design system.

Eira May Content Writer

podcast April 22, 2022

How a college extra-credit project became PHP3, still the bedrock of the web (Ep. 435)

The home team chats with Andi Gutmans, Google’s GM and VP of Engineering, Databases about the forgotten beauty of Pascal, why so many devs hate PHP, and why companies should prioritize the developer experience.

Eira May Content Writer