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code-for-a-living May 18, 2020

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.

Adam Konrád

code-for-a-living May 15, 2020

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…

Ryan Donovan

podcast May 15, 2020

Podcast 235: An emotional week, and the way forward

A conversation about the recent furloughs at Stack Overflow, Zoom's acquisition of Keybase, the upcoming Bitcoin halving, and the release of Deno v1.0.0.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living May 14, 2020

The most successful developers share more than they take

After interviewing several developers, a pattern started to become clear: great developers share a lot. This takes different forms for different people, but is very often a blog. But for many top developers, their sharing mindset came before their success, and was the direct cause of it, not the result of it.

Ben James

code-for-a-living May 13, 2020

Ensuring backwards compatibility in distributed systems

The move towards distributed architectures brings lots of benefits: easier testing, smaller deployable units, looser decoupling, smaller failure surfaces, to name a few. But it also brings its own set of challenges. How can a set of services evolve together in a way that doesn’t break the system?

Michael Pratt

podcast May 12, 2020

Podcast 234: We’re doing it live!

We dig deep into .Net and prepare a live episode to raise funds for those impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living May 11, 2020

Dev Around the Sun: Community and caring in lonely times

#DevAroundTheSun is a group of technologists, from all backgrounds, with one singular goal: To raise awareness and funds for the treatment and prevention of COVID-19 related illness through interactive collaboration and learning within the technology community. The conference will be for 24 hours starting at 12:00pm UTC on May 12th.

Sara Chipps Director of Product, Community - Former

podcast May 8, 2020

Podcast 233: Contact tracing and civil liberties, Part 2

Can the bluetooth sensors in our phones help to prevent the spread of Covid-19?

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast May 5, 2020

Podcast 232: Can We Decentralize Contact Tracing?

Are there lessons to be learned from South Korea that could work in other countries?

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living May 4, 2020

Learning to work asynchronously takes time

Whether you have worked in a traditional office or work remotely, software development has always had an asynchronous nature to it. But now that almost all of us are working remotely, it’s important to define exactly what it means to work asynchronously and look at some specific tips for folks that are new to it.…

Mark Locklear

podcast May 1, 2020

Podcast 231: Make it So

This week we chat about Star Trek, React, parsing, and the growing trend of holding virtual events in spaces like Fortnite and Animal Crossing.

Ben Popper Director of Content