The Stack Overflow Podcast

On this episode we chat with Shay DeWael and Steve Gill, two developers at Slack working on their open source tooling and developer education.

On today's episode, we chat with Suyog Rao, director of engineering at Elastic Cloud. Suyog began as an open source contributor, then an IC, and eventually a manager and director. He explains that journey, and how our new normal of remote work will drive a new era of transformation in cloud services.

On today's episode we chat with Tom Limoncelli, a site reliability engineering manager at Stack Overflow. Tom talks about his time at places like Bell Labs and Google, how he creates runbooks, and the secret to building a healthy relationship between developers and operations.

We chat with Ian Allen and Kyle Pollard, two software developers at Stack Overflow, about what it takes to changes careers, learn new disciplines, and maintain a beginner's mindset. Ian started on internal development, moved to our talent product, and now works on the data team. Kyle was in retail, moved to help desk, became a webmaster, and is now working on our public platform team.

Olivia Adams is a Massachusetts based full stack developer and engineering manager at electronic health record company Athenahealth. After seeing older family members struggle with complex and unreliable vaccine sites, she decided to build one herself. It has exploded in popularity and may serve as a model for other regions.

On today's episode we chat with Lance Cleghorn, who describes himself as "working to integrate crowd sourced security into the DoD [Department of Defense] through innovative bug bounty projects. AKA Hacking the Pentagon." Nothing we've ever written on LinkedIn has sounded that cool.

This week we chat about the half-life of the software you create. Why does some get refactored after six weeks while another program goes untouched for years? How do you know when it's time to say goodbye to your codebase and try a new architecture?

This week we chat with Julian Schrittwieser, a staff software engineer at DeepMind, the AI lab acquired by Google in 2014. He is an author of a recent paper on MuZero, an AI program that mastered "Go, chess, shogi and Atari without needing to be told the rules, thanks to its ability to plan winning strategies in unknown environments."

In today’s episode, we chat about simplifying the address of your crypto wallet, static linking, the security risks you need to consider with package managers, and Paul’s paper hands.

This week we sit down for a conversation with Blake Johnson and Robert Sutor from IBM's quantum computing ecosystem. We discuss the technology's implications on drug discovery, security, and cryptocurrencies. Plus, tips on learning the basics and running your own experiments with the hardware you have at home.