the stack overflow podcast Archives

podcast March 25, 2022

Human laziness is the ultimate security threat (Ep. 427)

The home team talks with Guillermo Rauch, CEO and cofounder of Vercel and cocreator of Next.js, and Sam Lambert, formerly VP of Engineering at Github and now CEO of PlanetScale. They cover how Vercel and PlanetScale are making the web more accessible to developers, the future of web development for professional programmers, and why human laziness is the ultimate security threat.

Eira May Content Writer

partner-content March 23, 2022

Getting through a SOC 2 audit with your nerves intact (Ep. 426)

And how to make friends with your auditor.

Ryan Donovan

podcast March 22, 2022

Codespaces moves into public beta, the virtual real estate worth millions, and how microservices and CI/CD can hurt productivity (Ep. 425)

The home team chats with Adam Lear, a staff software engineer on the public platform at Stack Overflow. They discuss GitHub’s move to put prebuilt Codespaces into public beta, the people paying millions for virtual real estate, and the downsides of microservices and CI/CD for developer productivity.

Eira May Content Writer

podcast March 18, 2022

McDonald’s is to Chipotle what REST APIs are to GraphQL (Ep. 424)

Ceora, Ben, and Matt talk with Danielle Man, Director of Engineering at Apollo GraphQL, about how an MIT program for high school girls helped kick off her career, her path from IC to engineering manager, and how Apollo became what it is today.

Eira May Content Writer

podcast March 15, 2022

Visual Studio turns 25, new ideas for supporting open source, and of course…NFTs (Ep. 423)

The new home team—Matt, Ceora, and Cassidy—discuss Visual Studio’s 25th birthday, how to create a sustainable revenue source for open-source frameworks, why open-source business models contribute to a lack of diversity, and why NFTs are so unpopular with K-pop fans.

Eira May Content Writer

podcast March 11, 2022

Crypto feels broken. That’s because it’s the internet circa 1996 (Ep. 422)

Ben talks with entrepreneur and venture capitalist David Pakman, who recently left his longtime role as a partner at veteran VC firm Venrock to become managing partner at CoinFund.

Eira May Content Writer

March 8, 2022

Welcoming the new crew of Stack Overflow podcast hosts

We've got a new team of hosts and some big plans for the future.

Ben Popper Director of Content

podcast March 8, 2022

Who says HTML and CSS aren’t real programming? (Ep. 421)

Welcome to the new Stack Overflow podcast. For our relaunch episode, the home team covers code scanning for security vulnerabilities in open-source registries, whether high-profile skills training programs from Google and Amazon really address systemic inequity in tech (spoiler: probably not), and how a James Bond character sparked Matt’s interest in security.

Eira May Content Writer

podcast March 4, 2022

Why David Barrett, CEO of Expensify, still takes his turn on PagerDuty (Ep. 420)

The team talks with Expensify CEO David Barrett about how computer graphics and video games inspired his career, how Expensify built their stack, and why this CEO still takes his turn on PagerDuty.

Eira May Content Writer

podcast March 1, 2022

The Great QR Code Comeback (Ep. 419)

The home team talks about award-winning diagramming and charting tool Mermaid, the QR code ad promoting crypto at the Super Bowl, and Intel’s semiconductor investment.

Eira May Content Writer