The Stack Overflow Podcast

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 some hard truths about the recommendation engines that guide our consumption of digital content and Dailymotion's plans to build a system optimized for users' health, not their watch time.

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 Spectrum 128, he’s now in charge of Vertica Accelerator, a SaaS version of the Vertica database.

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 architecture differently than the rest of us.

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 database into smaller distributed databases to spread query load across multiple servers. We talk about the complexities that arise with large databases, the rise of open source in China, and how Trista’s position as the only female Apache member in China can help other women get into technology.

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 Code when you’re live-streaming a programming session.

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 about his journey learning to write software, how he came up with the idea for Terraform, and why he prefers slinging code to executive roles.

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 everything about your IaC system: it runs code, deploys within CI/CD pipelines, tracks the progress of your infrastructure, and gives you insight into who made what changes and why. Today it works with the IaC tools already out there: Terraform, Cloud Formation, and Pulumi, with plans to add support for services like Ansible and Kubernetes in the future.

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 scam. From there, the team talks about the crypto world, how its reputation has suffered from associations with less-than-savory players, and how the blockchain concept has evolved from Bitcoin to Solana.

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 real data, but without exposing personally identifiable information (PII). We talk about how data outliers can identify individuals, demo data that feels real but isn’t, and skewing patterns by skewing dates.

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.