The Stack Overflow Podcast

We chat with Alex Williams and Hassan Khan, a pair of techie policy wonks who have done deep research on the past and present of the semi-conductor industry. The duo also also brings some strong opinions on the current supply chain crunch and what it would take to build a more resilient and adaptive semiconductor industry in the future.

Not to get too meta, but there is a lot of buzz in the tech world and among software developers about the advent of Web3 and the opportunity blockchains provide to write new rules for a future internet. In today's episode, we discuss what these emerging tools and platforms might bring. Cassidy and Ceora throw a much needed glass of cold realism on Ben's sunny techno-optimism, and old man Ryan shouts at a cloud.

In this episode, Ben and Ryan go mano a mano on big companies vs. small companies, closing questions vs. ignoring them, and privacy in phones vs. allowing law enforcement to crack bad actors’ phones.

We chat with Alex Obenauer, entrepreneur and writer of technology insights, about the connection between music and programming, changing email and productivity software to serve the user, and building empathy from the operating system on up.

On this sponsored episode of the Stack Overflow Podcast, we talk with Greg Leffler of Splunk about the keys to instrumenting an observable system and how the OpenTelemetry standard makes observability easier, even if you aren’t using Splunk’s product.

The home team shares their programming origin stories, from year one, when everyone was bitten by a radioactive microchip, all the way to the present, where we are talking about code on a podcast.

We chat with Isaac Lyman, a developer who wrote a great piece on code quality. Far from premature optimization, focusing on code quality early has huge benefits for the company's bottom line and its developers' mental health.

It's a reunion episode featuring a Stack Overflow classic crew, with Ben Popper, Paul Ford, co-founder of Postlight, and Sara Chipps, engineering manager for flagship architecture at LinkedIn. We talk about Paul getting his first job in software from a footer note on the CSS mailing list. Later we chat about Sara's experience going from a company with hundreds of engineers, to one with thousands.

In this episode, we chat with Eran Shir, CEO of Nexar, a company that provides smart dashcams. Using machine learning and the power of crowdsourcing, Nexar aims to help everyone drive smarter without sacrificing privacy.

In this episode, we chat with Stephen Goldberg and Kyle Bernhardy from HarperDB. Their startup was born from their experience dealing with the firehose of Twitter data during sporting events, and now they have a database designed to scale well for real-time data.