Essays, opinions, and advice on the act of computer programming from Stack Overflow.
The Overflow #144: Number input is the worst Single sign-on, a 9V battery to power the world, and the core ideals of Steve Jobs
09/23/22
We hate Scrum and Agile…when it’s done wrong (Ep. 488)Well, we don’t hate it per se. It’s more of a love/hate relationship, if we’re honest with ourselves. You can do it wrong: excessive top-down structure is the kryptonite of developer brilliance. Or you can do it right: setting up the team so everyone feels empowered and blameless accountability lets you evolve from mistakes and…
09/23/22
Five nines uptime without developer burnoutThe days of traditional application monitoring are fading. Applications today are no longer a single program, but a network of services connected by API and RPC endpoints across cloud containers that are created and removed as needed.
09/22/22
Five nines uptime without developer burnoutThe days of traditional application monitoring are fading. Applications today are no longer a single program, but a network of services connected by API and RPC endpoints across cloud containers that are created and removed as needed.
09/22/22
Can integrating hardware with software save developers time and energy?Developers are always trying to shorten the distance between thinking of a solution and coding. How much does the integration of hardware and software in your everyday tooling help?
09/21/22
A serial entrepreneur finally embraces open source (Ep. 486)Serial entrepreneur Arpit Mohan, cofounder and CTO of Appsmith, tells Ben and Cassidy about his path to building Appsmith, an open-source project that makes it easy for engineers to build, ship, and maintain internal tools.
09/20/22
I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for freeAbsent a time machine, telling others how to avoid my mistakes is the best I can do.
09/19/22
The Overflow #143: Modern PerlAI-assisted cheating, clarity vs. code confidence, and (not so) Critical CSS
09/16/22
Hypergrowth headaches (Ep. 485)When a company hits a period of hypergrowth, developers are in for a thrill ride. They need to start scaling their systems, moving to service architectures and clouds, and looking to solve problems others haven’t. But hypergrowth brings headaches, too, and chief among them is how to keep everyone aware of what’s going on with teams that they aren’t a part of.
09/16/22
Why the number input is the worst inputThink that web form has got your number? If you used input type="number", you may be surprised to find that it doesn't.
09/15/22
What science says about flow stateWe chat with Thomas Fritz, Associate Professor of Human Aspects of Software Engineering, about what makes developers more productive.
09/14/22
Forrester Consulting TEI Study: Five ways Stack Overflow for Teams delivered 191% ROIOrganizations today stare down big challenges around attracting and retaining talent, achieving organizational resiliency, protecting against knowledge loss, and supporting collaboration and innovation. Our customers are using Stack Overflow for Teams to meet these challenges. We know from our customers’ stories that Stack Overflow for Teams is delivering value: reducing the time people spend asking…
09/13/22
Hackathons and free pizza: All about Stack Overflow’s new Student Ambassador Program (Ep. 483)Ben, fresh from launching Stack Overflow’s new Student Ambassador Program, tells Matt about partnering with Major League Hacking, the young programmers eager to get back to in-person events, and the powerful allure of free pizza. Plus: Why you don’t have to create an account to engage with our public platform.
09/13/22
The many problems with implementing Single Sign-OnWithout SSO and other enterprise features, a product can only go so far.
09/12/22
The Overflow #142: The bane of bosswareFunctional programming for blockchains, multiple conditional inheritances, and the life of Clippy
09/09/22
Plug-and-play AI for your own projects (Ep. 482)Ben talks with Dylan Fox, founder and CEO of rapid-growth startup AssemblyAI, about how he became interested in AI and machine learning, why he left a steady job at a tech giant to create something new, and what AI can offer creators like writers and visual artists.
09/09/22
This is not your grandfather’s PerlThat Perl interpreter you have on your Linux machine? Update it and check out the present.
09/08/22
For developers, flow state starts with your finger tips Developers and their employers are constantly thinking about productivity. We partnered with Logitech to produce a four-part podcast series to chat about how your hardware and software work together to keep you in a flow state and make you more productive. Each podcast will have it’s own landing page on the blog, but will also…
09/08/22
Flow state at your fingertips – how keyboards impact developer productivityEpisode one of our four part series sponsored by Logitech.
09/08/22
How machine learning algorithms figure out what you should watch nextCuration at scale needs to process a lot of data with a good algorithm.