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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?

27 mins; February 24, 2022

Finally, an AI bot that can ace technical interview questions

20 mins; February 22, 2022

An algorithm that optimizes for avoiding ennui

19 mins; February 17, 2022

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

24 mins; February 16, 2022

Gen Z doesn’t understand file structures

21 mins; February 14, 2022

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

27 mins; February 11, 2022

There’s no coding Oscars. Write software that works

28 mins; February 07, 2022

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

35 mins; February 03, 2022

A collaborative hub for infrastructure as code

22 mins; February 02, 2022

Next stop, Cryptoland?

36 mins; January 31, 2022

Using synthetic data to power machine learning while protecting user privacy

26 mins; January 27, 2022

How to defend your attention and find a flow state

23 mins; January 24, 2022

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

21 mins; January 20, 2022

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

32 mins; January 17, 2022

Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses

25 mins; January 13, 2022

Making Agile work for data science

20 mins; January 12, 2022

Helping communities build their own LTE networks

34 mins; January 10, 2022

Are developers helping to drive the Great Resignation?

30 mins; January 06, 2022

Professional ethics and phantom braking

20 mins; January 03, 2022

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

20 mins; December 20, 2021

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

24 mins; December 16, 2021

Skills, not schools, are in demand among developers

26 mins; December 15, 2021

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

27 mins; December 13, 2021

Zero to MVP without provisioning a database

22 mins; December 09, 2021

Feeling insecure about your code's security?

16 mins; December 06, 2021

Is crypto the key to a democratizing the metaverse?

25 mins; December 02, 2021

Does modern parenting have to rely on spyware?

19 mins; November 29, 2021

Who is building clouds for the independent developer?

24 mins; November 22, 2021

Who owns this outage? Building intelligent, automated escalation chains

22 mins; November 22, 2021

What if the value of software platforms ACTUALLY flowed to the users?

30 mins; November 18, 2021

250 words per minute on a chorded keyboard? Only if you can think that fast.

24 mins; November 15, 2021

The polyglot who leads Stack Overflow's Platform team

28 mins; November 11, 2021

The semiconductor shortage: explained

35 mins; November 08, 2021

Web3 won't save us

37 mins; November 04, 2021

The big problem with only being able to solve big problems

22 mins; November 01, 2021

The big problem with only being able to solve big problems

22 mins; November 01, 2021

Software for your second brain

27 mins; October 28, 2021

A murder mystery: who killed our user experience?

28 mins; October 26, 2021

The first ten years of our programming lives

22 mins; October 25, 2021

Quality code is the easiest to delete

22 mins; October 21, 2021

Getting your first job off the CSS mailing list

19 mins; October 18, 2021

Can AI solve car accidents and find you a parking space?

24 mins; October 14, 2021

A database built for a firehose

24 mins; October 11, 2021

Wait, we're all content moderators now?

31 mins; October 07, 2021

Building image search, but for any object IRL

23 mins; October 04, 2021

It's 2FA's world, we're just living in it

20 mins; September 30, 2021

Automate away your boring standup meetings

27 mins; September 29, 2021

Become a better coder...with this one weird click

32 mins; September 28, 2021

The paranoid style in application development

24 mins; September 23, 2021

You don't need a math PhD to play Dwarf Fortress, just to code it

32 mins; September 20, 2021

Writing the roadmap from engineer to manager

23 mins; September 16, 2021

This AI-assisted bug bash is offering serious prizes for squashing nasty code

19 mins; September 15, 2021

Managing Kubernetes entirely in Git? Meet GitOps

27 mins; September 13, 2021

How valuable is your screen name?

29 mins; September 09, 2021

Authorization is complex. Oso is a library designed to help you structure it.

22 mins; September 07, 2021

Why yes, I do have a patent on a time machine

22 mins; September 02, 2021

Exploring the magic of instant python refactoring with Sourcery

27 mins; August 30, 2021

Changing of the guards: one co-host departs, and a new one enters

19 mins; August 26, 2021

Passwords are dead! Long live the new authentication flows.

18 mins; August 23, 2021

Extending the legacy of Admiral Grace Hopper

14 mins; August 19, 2021

Building a better developer platform

23 mins; August 16, 2021

Move fast and make sure nobody gets pager alerts at 2AM

26 mins; August 12, 2021

Using AI to fake your own voice, podcasting never been easier

19 mins; August 09, 2021

What's the blast radius when your database goes down?

25 mins; August 05, 2021

Highlights from our 2021 Developer Survey

18 mins; August 02, 2021

Exploring the cutting edge of privacy and encryption with Very Good Security

22 mins; July 29, 2021

Why startups should use Kubernetes from day one

23 mins; July 26, 2021

From AOL chat rooms to Wikipedia, Reddit, and now, Stack Overflow

21 mins; July 22, 2021

Crafting software and games for the selfie generation

21 mins; July 19, 2021

Github Copilot can write code for you. We put it to the test.

26 mins; July 15, 2021

Leaving your job to pursue an indie project as a solo developer

30 mins; July 12, 2021

So you're not getting along with your engineering team

20 mins; July 11, 2021

Is everyone starting to work like a developer?

27 mins; July 08, 2021

Building for AR with Niantic Labs augmented reality SDK

29 mins; July 05, 2021

Bring your own stack: Why developer platforms are going headless

21 mins; July 01, 2021

How product development at Stack Overflow has evolved

20 mins; June 28, 2021

Stack Overflow has a new product: Collectives™. Here's how we built it, and why.

20 mins; June 24, 2021

From search trees to neural nets, a deep dive into natural language processing

34 mins; June 22, 2021

The "No-Code" tools bringing software to analog industries closed during the pandemic

23 mins; June 21, 2021

Tickets please! Exploring the joys of being a junior engineer

18 mins; June 17, 2021

Information foraging: the tricks great developers use to find solutions

18 mins; June 14, 2021

Forget view-source, young coders are learning by making Discord bots and hacking Roblox

28 mins; June 10, 2021

A good software tutorial explains the How. A great one explains the Why.

21 mins; June 07, 2021

Don't build it: advice on civic tech from MIT's GOV/LAB

18 mins; June 03, 2021

Unpacking observability and OpenTelemetry with Spiros Xanthos of Splunk

34 mins; May 31, 2021

WFH? Developers learn to be their own operations department

31 mins; May 27, 2021

Blocking the haters as a service

36 mins; May 24, 2021

Build engineering at Apple and the future of deploy previews

24 mins; May 20, 2021

Where design meets development inside Stack Overflow

32 mins; May 17, 2021

Why are good Ruby developers so hard to find?

23 mins; May 13, 2021

Saying goodbye to our co-host, Sara Chipps

22 mins; May 10, 2021

NFT art, Ethereum gas, and a dive into Gemini's data lake

30 mins; May 07, 2021

Open source contributors helped a helicopter fly on Mars

24 mins; May 03, 2021

One founder's journey from personal trainer to "frontend mentor"

21 mins; April 29, 2021

From music to trading cards, software is transforming curation and collecting

31 mins; April 26, 2021

Non-fungible Talking

24 mins; April 22, 2021

One in four visitors to Stack Overflow copies code

14 mins; April 19, 2021

How to build and maintain online communities, from gaming to open source

37 mins; April 15, 2021

Two words for ya: networked spreadsheets

24 mins; April 12, 2021

For Twilio's CIO, every internal developer is a customer

21 mins; April 08, 2021

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