The Stack Overflow Podcast

The Stack Overflow Podcast

For more than a dozen years, the Stack Overflow Podcast has been exploring what it means to be a developer and how the art and practice of software programming is changing our world. From Rails to React, from Java to Node.js, we host important conversations and fascinating guests that will help you understand how technology is made and where it’s headed. Hosted by Ben Popper, Cassidy Williams, and Ceora Ford, the Stack Overflow Podcast is your home for all things code.

  • Is functional programming the hipster programming paradigm?

    Feb 25, 22 | 00:27:50

    Cassidy, Ceora, and Matt discuss functional programming and where it got its reputation as “the mustachioed hipster of programming paradigms.” Cassidy used to run a workshop teaching functional progra ...

  • Finally, an AI bot that can ace technical interview questions

    Feb 22, 22 | 00:20:51

    We chat about AlphaCode, the AI system created by Deep Mind that performed better than 50% of humans on a set of competitive programming challenges. Plus, a comparison of Wall Street fraud to the NFT ...

  • An algorithm that optimizes for avoiding ennui

    Feb 18, 22 | 00:19:43

    We chat with Guillaume Clement, Chief Operating Officer of the video platform Dailymotion, about his journey from Program Director to VP of Engineering to CTO and finally COO. Clement also reveals som ...

  • Column by your name: The analytics database that skips the rows

    Feb 16, 22 | 00:24:34

    On this sponsored episode of the podcast, we chat with Rohit (Ro) Amarnath, the CTO at Vertica, to find out how your analytics engine can speed up your workflow. After a humble beginning with a ZX Spe ...

  • Gen Z doesn’t understand file structures

    Feb 15, 22 | 00:21:52

    The home team talks about Cassidy’s new role as Head of Developer Experience and Education at Remote, Ceora’s controversial opinion on mac and cheese, and why Gen Z may understand information architec ...

  • China’s only female Apache member on the rise of open source in China

    Feb 11, 22 | 00:27:08

    We chat with Trista (Juan) Pan, CTO and co-founder, and Yacine Si Tayeb, head of international operations, both of SphereEX, about their open-source product Apache ShardingSphere. Sharding splits a da ...

  • There’s no coding Oscars. Write software that works

    Feb 08, 22 | 00:28:26

    The home team welcomes its newest member, Stack Overflow’s brand-new technical advocate, Matt Kiernander! They chat about what tools are top-of-mind when they get work done and the best font for VS Co ...

  • Moving from CEO back to IC: A chat with Mitchell Hashimoto on his love for code

    Feb 04, 22 | 00:35:11

    Today's episode is a fascinating discussion with Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, who recently returned to the role of independent contributor after stints as both CEO and CTO. We talk abo ...

  • A collaborative hub for infrastructure as code

    Feb 02, 22 | 00:22:36

    On this sponsored episode of the podcast, we talk with Marcin Wyszynski, founder and CEO at Spacelift. Marcin says Spacelift aims to be for infrastructure-as-code what GitHub is to git. It centralizes ...

  • Next stop, Cryptoland?

    Feb 01, 22 | 00:36:52

    Ben, Ryan, Cassidy, and Ceora talk about Cryptoland, “the first physical crypto island,” which has drawn fyre (oops, fire) from people trying to figure out whether it’s a real project, a parody, or a ...

  • Using synthetic data to power machine learning while protecting user privacy

    Jan 28, 22 | 00:26:41

    On this episode, we talk to John Myers, CTO and cofounder of Gretel. The company provides users with synthetic data that can be used in machine learning models, generating results comparable to the re ...

  • How to defend your attention and find a flow state

    Jan 25, 22 | 00:23:02

    This week we chat about the forces vying for your attention and how developers can fight back against distractions and get into more productive, focused flow states. ...

  • Who's going to pay to fix open source security?

    Jan 21, 22 | 00:21:23

    We chat about the corruption of color.js and faker.js, open source libraries widely used across GitHub and NPM. We explore some of the organizations trying to find ways to better fund and secure open ...

  • A chat with the folks who lead training and certification at AWS

    Jan 18, 22 | 00:32:35

    On this episode we chat with Maureen Lonergan, VP of AWS Certification and Training, and Scott Barneson, Director of Learning Products at AWS. They share some fascinating stats about the global expans ...

  • Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses

    Jan 14, 22 | 00:25:55

    We chat with Philippe Humeau, founder and CEO of CrowdSec, which bills itself as an open-source & collaborative IPS (intrusion prevention system). He explains why hackers are always the first to indus ...

  • Making Agile work for data science

    Jan 12, 22 | 00:20:53

    On this episode, we chat with Michael Carrico, director of data science, and Chris Wones, an engineering lead. Both work at 84.51°, which builds software and data solutions to power the pricing and pr ...

  • Helping communities build their own LTE networks

    Jan 11, 22 | 00:34:52

    Ben, Ryan, and Cassidy talk with Esther Jang, Matt Johnson, and Chris Webb of Seattle’s Local Connectivity Lab, a nonprofit that works in concert with the University of Washington to facilitate commun ...

  • Are developers helping to drive the Great Resignation?

    Jan 07, 22 | 00:30:14

    Cassidy recently joined the Great Resignation, leaving one job for another, a move prompted by pandemic era reflection and the new normal of remote work...without travel. Ceora took the opposite traje ...

  • Professional ethics and phantom braking

    Jan 04, 22 | 00:20:27

    Today’s episode is bookended by two questions about professional or academic ethics. Ben, Ryan, and Cassidy start by discussing a question on the Workplace Stack Exchange about whether to use open-sou ...

  • Teaching developers about the most lightweight web “framework” around, VanillaJS

    Dec 21, 21 | 00:20:09

    We chat with Chris Ferdinandi, affectionately known as the VanillaJS guy. He has a newsletter, podcast, eBooks, and courses all trying to teach people to use more resilient and simple browser-native J ...

  • Bringing AI to the edge, from the comfort of your living room

    Dec 17, 21 | 00:24:28

    Ben sits down with Bill Pearson, VP of the Internet of Things Group and General Manager of Developer Enablement at Intel, to talk about computing on the edge and how developers are using AI across use ...

  • Skills, not schools, are in demand among developers

    Dec 16, 21 | 00:26:59

    On this sponsored episode of the podcast, we chat with Mike Hendrickson, the VP of Tech and Dev products at Skillsoft, about the certifications and upskilling that they offer, as well as how that fits ...

  • An oral history of Stack Overflow - told by its founding team

    Dec 14, 21 | 00:27:34

    Our 400th episode! Stack Overflow founders Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky talk about how, in 2008, they started this very podcast by recording their weekly calls about a little product they wanted to bu ...

  • Zero to MVP without provisioning a database

    Dec 10, 21 | 00:22:24

    Ben and Ceora talk with Sam Lambert, former VP of Engineering at Github, now CEO of PlanetScale, a serverless database platform for developers. Sam tells Ben and Ceora how obsessing over the daily liv ...

  • Feeling insecure about your code's security?

    Dec 07, 21 | 00:16:55

    The home team talks about developer-first application security, the benefits of security-as-a-service, and whether a TikTok trend is GDPR-compliant. ...

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