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When Setting Up Monitoring, Less Data Is Better (Ep. 563)

Computer scientist Jean Yang, founder and CEO of monitoring and observability platform Akita, tells the home team how her drive to improve developer tooling led her from academia to Silicon Valley.
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20 Apr 2023

The Philosopher Who Believes In Web Assembly (Ep. 560)

For this episode, we talked with Matt Butcher, CEO at Fermyon Technologies, about distributed computing, the long-term promise of WebAssembly, and the HR mix-up that switched his career from lawn care to computer programming. 
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13 Apr 2023

Going Stateless With Authorization-as-a-service (Ep. 553)

The home team welcomes Alex Olivier, cofounder and product lead at Cerbos, for a conversation about how to centralize business logic in a microservices environment, the value of stateless applications, and what’s under Cerbos’s hood.
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10 Apr 2023

Building An API Is Half The Battle (Ep. 552)

Marco Palladino, CTO and cofounder of Kong, joins Ryan to talk about the evolution of API protocols over time and why building the API is only half the battle.
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6 Apr 2023

What Our Engineers Learned Building Stack Overflow (Ep. 547)

Charles “Cobih” Obih and Radek Markiewicz of the Stack Overflow platform team join Ben and Ryan to talk about changes to the inbox and what it’s like to build Stack Overflow’s public platform. 
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20 Mar 2023

What’s Different About These Layoffs

As the discouraging news continues, we revisit how our core community of developers has been experiencing the layoffs—and explore what sets this economic situation apart from previous dips and busts.
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19 Mar 2023

Let’s Talk Large Language Models (Ep. 546)

The home team unpacks their complicated feelings about AI, the Beyoncé deepfake that got kpop hopes up, and the pandemic’s ripple effects on today’s teenagers. Ben, the world’s worst coder, tells Cassidy and Ceora about building a web app with an AI assistant. 
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16 Mar 2023

How To Position Yourself To Land The Job You Want

The home team talks with Wesley Faulkner, Senior Community Manager at AWS, about what’s going on with this cycle of tech layoffs, how to position yourself for success on the job market, and why it’s worth interviewing for jobs you might not want. Plus: The two things you should do as soon as you get an offer.
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9 Mar 2023

“Move Fast And Break Things” Doesn’t Apply To Other People’s Savings (Ep. 544)

Christine Ryu, Engineering Lead at fintech platform Flourish, joins the home team to talk about how technology is transforming finance for everyone from big banks to individual consumers. Christine explains what it’s like to move from Goldman Sachs to a tiny startup, how legacy tech stacks lead to Frankencode, and what an acquisition taught her about build vs. buy and good vs. perfect.
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6 Mar 2023

New Pricing For Stack Overflow For Teams

Although a lot has changed since Stack Overflow launched in 2008, one thing has not: Stack Overflow continues to help people find the answers they need, when they need them. Our platform supports millions of the world's most active developers and technologists who visit every month to ask questions, learn, and share technical knowledge.
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1 Mar 2023

The Open-source Game Engine You’ve Been Waiting For: Godot (Ep. 542)

Juan Linietsky, cofounder and lead developer of the Godot Engine, joins the home team for a conversation about what led him to create an open-source game engine, how open source is shaping game development, and the well-worn path from playing video games to learning to build them. 
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27 Feb 2023

Stop Saying “technical Debt”

Everyone who says "tech debt" assumes they know what we’re all talking about, but their individual pictures differ quite a bit.
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27 Feb 2023

ML And AI Consulting-as-a-service (Ep. 541)

The home team talks with Jaclyn Rice Nelson, cofounder and CEO of Tribe AI, about the explosion of hype surrounding generative AI, what it’s like to work at a startup after working at Google, and how Tribe is leveraging the power of a specialist network.
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23 Feb 2023

Shorten The Distance Between Production Data And Insight (Ep. 541)

On this sponsored episode of the podcast, we talk with Stanimira Vlaeva, Developer Advocate at MongoDB, and Fredric Favelin, Technical Director, Partner Presales at MongoDB, about how a serverless database can minimize the distance between producing data and understanding it.
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22 Feb 2023

Authorization On Rails (Ep. 540)

Sam Scott, cofounder and CTO of Oso, joins the home team to talk about what makes authorization a challenge, the difference between authentication and authorization, and what zombies taught him about web development.
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20 Feb 2023

Are Clouds Having Their On-prem Moment?

While public cloud usage continues to grow, an increasing number are also moving to on-prem private clouds (sometimes even owning and operating their own hardware).
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20 Feb 2023

Developer With ADHD? You’re Not Alone.

Is there a connection between programming and ADHD? And could it be that people with ADHD are particularly well-suited to programming careers? 
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19 Feb 2023

Because The Only Thing Worse Than Building Internal Tools Is Maintaining Them (Ep. 539)

David Hsu, founder and CEO of Retool, joins Ben to talk about low-code and no-code tools: why some folks love to hate them and whether they really help devs work faster or just allow those of us who aren’t programmers to muck everything up. Or both!
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16 Feb 2023

Three Layers To Secure A Software Development Organization

This affects the individual developer writing insecure code, the engineering team blindly trusting their dependencies, and the organization thinking that their best bet is to roll their own security controls.
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9 Feb 2023