Best practices can slow your application down
In order to get the most performant site possible when building the codebase for our public Stack Overflow site, we didn’t always follow best practices.
Podcast 338: Why is it so hard to find Ruby developers?
Your early developers loved Ruby, so you center your company around that. Now you can't find young talent.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 229: Jokes On Us
Tune in for part two of our conversation with Adam Lear and Jon Chan, Stack Overflow developers working on our public sites and community tools.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Podcast 228: chatting with Stack Overflow’s community developers
On this episode of the podcast, we chat with two of the Stack Overflow developers working on our public sites and community tools.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
Building dark mode on Stack Overflow
On March 30, 2020, we enabled folks to opt into a beta dark mode on Stack Overflow. Let’s talk about the work that went into it.
Aaron Shekey
Principal Product Designer, Design Systems
A Technical Deep Dive into Our MS Teams Integration
How we approached and accomplished the integration between SO for Teams and MS Teams. This is a technical blog for folks who are interested in the process of how we got these two codebases to play nice with one another.
Why Devs (Should) Like Estimates
The impetus to provide an estimate for development work most often comes from non-developer stakeholders in your organization. Learning to do it well can improve collaboration and coordination across departments, making everyone happier and more productive.
Yaakov Ellis
Principal Web Developer & Community Advocate
Adding Static Code Analysis to Stack Overflow
As of September 23rd, 2019, we’re applying static analysis to some of the code behind public Stack Overflow, Stack Overflow for Teams, and Stack Overflow Enterprise in order to pre-emptively find and eliminate certain kinds of vulnerabilities. How we accomplished this is an interesting story and also illustrative of advancements in .NET’s open source community.…
Kevin Montrose
Team Lead, Data - Former
How to Make Good Code Reviews Better
I have been doing day-to-day code reviews for over a decade now. The benefits of code reviews are plenty: someone spot checks your work for errors, they get to learn from your solution, and the collaboration helps to improve the organization’s overall approach to tooling and automation. If you’re not currently doing code reviews in…
Introducing Custom Filters
Custom Filters are available to public Stack Overflow users today! The new feature allows a new way of navigating and discovering questions that are relevant to you on Stack Overflow. This rollout is part of our continuing efforts to make the core Q&A experience on Stack Overflow better, and we’re looking forward to improving this feature and many more with your help.
Jon Chan
Engineering Manager, Public Platform
Lessons Learned: Adding Single Sign-On to Stack Overflow for Teams
Hi, I’m Roberta Arcoverde, a Principal Software Developer at Stack Overflow. A few months ago I was tasked with figuring out how to enable single sign-on for Stack Overflow for Teams. We felt it was important to add SSO to the private version of Stack Overflow so the admins of our Teams could easily and…
Roberta Arcoverde
Principal Software Developer