The Stack Overflow Podcast

se-stackoverflow May 5, 2023

Building golden paths for developers (Ep. 567)

The home team talks with Luca Galante of Humanitec about how platform engineering is more art than science, how self-service platforms empower developers with “golden paths,” and why he’s excited, not anxious, about AI tools (at least for now).

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow May 2, 2023

When AI meets IP: Can artists sue AI imitators? (Ep. 566)

Ben and Ceora talk through some thorny issues around AI-generated music and art, explain why creators are suing AI companies for copyright infringement, and compare notes on the most amusing/alarming AI-generated content making the rounds (Pope coat, anyone?).

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow April 28, 2023

How a top-ranked engineering school reimagined CS curriculum (Ep. 565)

The home team welcomes a student and a professor from engineering powerhouse Olin College for a discussion of computer science education and how Olin prepares its students to hit the ground running as software engineers.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow April 25, 2023

Is this the AI renaissance? (Ep. 564)

Paul van der Boor is a Senior Director of Data Science at Prosus and a member of its internal AI group. He talks with Ben about what’s happening in the world of generative AI, the power of collective discovery, and the gap between a shiny proof of concept and a product that people will actually use.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow April 21, 2023

When setting up monitoring, less data is better (Ep. 563)

Computer scientist Jean Yang, founder and CEO of monitoring and observability platform Akita, tells the home team how her drive to improve developer tooling led her from academia to Silicon Valley.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

partner-content April 19, 2023

Ops teams are pets, not cattle (Ep. 562)

Ops folks with knowledge are irreplaceable. Treat them like you need them.

Ryan Donovan

se-stackoverflow April 18, 2023

We bought a university: how one coding school doubled down on brick and mortar (Ep. 561)

Paulo and Guilherme Silveira, brothers and cofounders of edtech platform Alura, join the home team for a conversation about polyglot programming, edtech, and the role of generative AI.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow April 14, 2023

The philosopher who believes in Web Assembly (Ep. 560)

For this episode, we talked with Matt Butcher, CEO at Fermyon Technologies, about distributed computing, the long-term promise of WebAssembly, and the HR mix-up that switched his career from lawn care to computer programming.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow April 11, 2023

Going stateless with authorization-as-a-service (Ep. 559)

The home team welcomes Alex Olivier, cofounder and product lead at Cerbos, for a conversation about how to centralize business logic in a microservices environment, the value of stateless applications, and what’s under Cerbos’s hood.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

se-stackoverflow April 7, 2023

Building an API is half the battle (Ep. 558)

Marco Palladino, CTO and cofounder of Kong, joins Ryan to talk about the evolution of API protocols over time and why building the API is only half the battle.

Eira May Senior Content Marketer

partner-content April 5, 2023

From cryptography to consensus: Q&A with CTO David Schwartz on building real-world blockchain apps (Ep. 557)

Imagine a world where you're owning your digital purchases instead of licensing them.

Ryan Donovan