The Stack Overflow Podcast

Multi-stage attacks are the Final Fantasy bosses of security

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Gee Rittenhouse, VP of Security at AWS, to the show to discuss the complexities of multi-stage attacks in cybersecurity and how these at...

After all the hype, was 2025 really the year of AI agents?

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by Stefan Weitz, CEO and co-founder of the HumanX Conference, for a conversation on how AI has evolved in the last year. They discuss w...

Building a global engineering team (plus AI agents) with Netlify

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow’s Chief of Product and Technology, Jody Bailey, sits down with Dana Lawson, CTO at Netlify. Dana ...

Keeping the lights on for open source

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan sits down with Chainguard CEO Dan Lorenc to chat about how his team is keeping the foundation of the internet—open source projects—alive by f...

Open source for awkward robots

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by Jan Liphardt,  CEO and co-founder of OpenMind, to chat about the rapidly evolving world of humanoid robotics and what it means for...

Even the chip makers are making LLMs

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Kari Briski, NVIDIA’s VP of Generative AI Software for Enterprise, to the show to explore how a chip manufacturer got into the model d...

Building brains for bulldozers

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan chats with Kevin Peterson, CTO of Bedrock Robotics, about the evolution of self-driving technology and why robotics is now advancing; how real da...

AI-assisted coding needs more than vibes; it needs containers and sandboxes

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SPONSORED BY DOCKERIn this sponsored episode, Ryan chats with Mark Cavage, President and COO of Docker, joins the show to dive into hardened container...

No need for Ctrl+C when you have MCP

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan sits down with Member of the Technical Staff at Anthropic and Model Context Protocol co-creator David Soria Parra to talk the evolution of MCP fr...

To live in an AI world, knowing is half the battle

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Marcus Fontoura, technical fellow at Microsoft and author of Human Agency in the Digital World, to discuss the intersection of technolog...

Dogfood so nutritious it’s building the future of SDLCs

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI’s engineering lead on Codex, to discuss how the Codex team dogfoods Codex to build Codex, what distinguishes...

Even GenAI uses Wikipedia as a source

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by Philippe Saade, the AI project lead at Wikimedia Deutschland, to dive into the Wikidata Embedding Project and how their team vectori...

Why Stack Overflow and Cloudflare launched a pay-per-crawl model

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow’s Janice Manningham and Josh Zhang sit down with Cloudflare VP Will Allen to discuss the innovati...

Data is the new oil, and your database is the only way to extract it

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan sits down with Shireesh Thota, CVP of Azure Databases at Microsoft, to discuss the evolution of databases at Microsoft; Azure’s comprehensive p...

Even your voice is a data problem

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded last December at AWS re:Invent, Ryan welcomes CEO and co-founder of Deepgram, Scott Stephenson, for a conversation on advancing voice AI tech...

The logos, ethos, and pathos of your LLMs

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by Professor Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton University’s AI Lab, to dive into findings from his new book The Laws of Thought, w...

AI attention span so good it shouldn’t be legal

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We have another two-for-one special this week, with two more interviews from the floor of re:Invent. First, Ryan welcomes Pathway CEO Zuzanna Stamirow...

Generating text with diffusion (and ROI with LLMs)

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Two guests for the price of one! This episode has two interviews recorded at AWS re:Invent back in December. In part 1, Ryan chats with the co-founder...

Wanna see a CSS magic trick?

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by Chris Coyier, founder of CSS Tricks and CodePen, to talk all about what the state of the art of CSS is today, including new features...

Spy vs spy at scale

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Anthony Vinci, former senior intelligence officer and author of The Fourth Intelligence Revolution, to explore AI’s evolving role in i...

AI can 10x developers...in creating tech debt

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan sits down with Michael Parker, VP of Engineering at TurinTech to discuss the newest kind of tech debt—AI-generated tech debt. They dive into th...

Don’t let your backend write checks your frontend can’t cache

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Prakash Chandran, CEO and co-founder of Xano, to the show to discuss the intricate relationship between frontend and backend development...

How AWS re:Invented the cloud

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

From the floor at AWS re:Invent, Ryan is joined by AWS Senior Principal Engineer David Yanacek to chat about all things AWS, from the truth behind AWS...

Transforming enterprise workflows: How IBM is unlocking AI's potential

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow Chief of Product and Technology Jody Bailey chats with Matt Lyteson, CIO of Technology Platform Tra...

Vibe code anything in a Hanselminute

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes back the mighty Scott Hanselman, VP of Developer Community at Microsoft, for a crossover episode about all things vibe coding. They cove...

Every ecommerce hero needs a Sidekick

09 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by Vanessa Lee, VP of Product at Shopify, to discuss how AI is a tech renaissance and how these new technologies are affecting the ecom...

You need quality engineers to turn AI into ROI

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SPONSORED BY MONGODBPete Johnson, Field CTO, Artificial Intelligence at MongoDB, joins the podcast to talk about a recent OpenAI paper on the impact t...

Search engine bots crawled so AI bots could run

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan hosts Akamai data scientist Robert Lester on the show to discuss how the growth of AI bots affects internet traffic, the ways these AI bots diffe...

The most dangerous shortcuts in software

02 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan sits down with Tom Totenberg, head of release automation at LaunchDarkly, to discuss the perils of taking too many shortcuts in software developm...

How AI is helping us build better communities

30 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

MIT and Stanford professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland joins the show to explore the power of communities for shared knowledge and how AI could hurt or ...

Containers are easy—moving your legacy system off your VM is not

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan sits down with Dan Ciruli, VP and General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix, to talk about getting your virtual machines and Kubernetes to play ...

Settle down, nerds. AI is a normal technology

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Anil Dash, writer and former Stack Overflow board member, back to the show to discuss how AI is not a magical technology, but rather the...

Last week in AWS re:Invent with Corey Quinn

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan sits down with Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, at AWS re:Invent to get Corey’s patented snarky take on all the happenings from ...

Live from re:Invent…it’s Stack Overflow!

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by Stack Overflow’s CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar and Director of Data Science Michael Foree on the floor at re:Invent to discuss all th...

Interface is everything, and everything is an interface

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan talks with Wesley Yu, head of engineering at Metalab, about the evolution of interfaces in technology, the pressure that UI generated on the fly ...

AI is a crystal ball into your codebase

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by Kayvon Beykpour, CEO and founder of Microscope, to dive into AI-powered code review’s potential for managing large codebases, the ...

Treating your agents like microservices

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by Outshift by Cisco’s VP of Engineering Guillaume De Saint Marc to discuss the future of multi-agent architectures as microservices,...

Abstraction, but for robots

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Simone Kalmakis, VP of Engineering at Viam, to dive into how her team is bridging the gap between software and robotics, the importance ...

Lightning-as-a-service for agriculture

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Darryl Lyons, co-founder and Chief Rainmaker at Rainstick, joins the show to dive into advancements in AgTech and how Rainstick is using bioelectricit...

You’re probably underutilizing your GPUs

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by Jared Quincy Davis, CEO and co-founder of Mithril, to explore the importance of efficient resource allocation and GPU utilization in...

Only you can stop AI database drops

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by David Hsu, CEO and founder of Retool, to explore how AI is transforming the role of a software developer into a software architect, ...

How to create agents that people actually want to use

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Assaf Elovic, head of AI at monday.com, to discuss creating AI tools that users will actually adopt, how they created their Monday Sidek...

The fastest agent in the race has the best evals

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Benjamin Klieger, lead engineer at Groq, to explore the infrastructure behind AI agents, how you can turn a one-minute agent into a ten-...

One thing enterprise AI projects need to succeed? Community.

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar chats with Ramprasad Rai, VP of Platform Engineering at JPMorgan Chase &...

AI code means more critical thinking, not less

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by Secure Code Warrior’s co-founder and CTO Matias Madou to discuss the implications of LLMs’ variability on code security, th...

Revealing the unknown unknowns in your software

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Nic Benders to discuss the complexity and abstraction crisis in software development, the importance of going beyond observability into ...

To write secure code, be less gullible than your AI

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by Greg Foster, CTO of Graphite, to explore how much we should trust AI-generated code to be secure, the importance of tooling in ensur...

Vibe coding needs a spec, too

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan talks with Deepak Singh, VP of Developer Agents and Experiences at AWS and lead at Kiro, about spec-driven development in a vibe coding world. Th...

Craft and quality beat speed and scale, with or without agents

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Tom Moor, head of engineering at Linear, to discuss AI agents’ mixed results for productivity in the development lifecycle, the import...

Your runbooks are obsolete in the age of agents

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by Spiros Xanthos, CEO and founder of Resolve AI, to talk about the future of AI agents in incident management and troubleshooting, the...

What leaders need to know from the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Eira May, B2B Editor at Stack Overflow, and Natalie Rotnov, Senior Product Marketing Manager for the Enterprise Pr...

Open source is giving you choices with your agent systems

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes John Dickerson, CEO of Mozilla.ai, to talk about the evolving landscape of AI agents, the role of open source in keeping the tech ecosys...

Why rent a cloud when you can build one?

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Andrei Kvapil, founder of Ænix and core developer of Cozystack, joins Ryan to dive into what it takes to build a cloud from scratch, the intricacies ...

AI agents for your digital chores

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Dhruv Batra, co-founder and chief scientist at Yutori, to explore the future of AI agents, how AI usage is changing the way people inter...

Vite is like the United Nations of JavaScript

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes back Evan You, the creator of Vite and Vue.js, to discuss the evolution of build tools in web development, the unique features of Vite f...

Context is king for secure, AI-generated code

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan sits down with Dimitri Stiliadis, CTO and co-founder of Endor Labs, to talk about how AppSec is evolving to address AI’s use cases. They discus...

One is not the loneliest number for API calls

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gil Feig, co-founder and CTO of Merge, joins the show to explore Merge’s approach for reducing third-party APIs to a single call, the complexities o...

Building AI-ready teams: Why documentation and culture matter more than tools

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the second part of this two-part Leaders of Code episode, Peter O'Connor, Director of Platform Engineering, and Ryan J. Salva, Senior Director of P...

As your AI gets smarter, so must your API

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan sits down with Marco Palladino, CTO of Kong, to talk about the rise of AI agents and their impact on API consumption, the MCP protocol as a new s...

Getting Backstage in front of a shifting dev experience

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Pia Nilsson, GM for Backstage and head of developer experience at Spotify, to discuss the evolution and adoption of Backstage, the impac...

Democratizing your data access with AI agents

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff Hollan, director of product at Snowflake, joins Ryan to discuss the role that data plays in making AI and AI agents better. Along the way, they d...

Off with your CMS’s head! Composability and security in headless CMS

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Sebastian Gierlinger, VP of Engineering at Storyblok, to talk about how headless content management systems (CMS) fit into an increasing...

What an MCP implementation looks like at a CRM company

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan chats with  Karen Ng, EVP of Product at HubSpot, to chat about Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how they implemented it for their server for th...

Planning to Arm mobile devices with chips that handle AI

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Geraint North, AI and developer platforms fellow at Arm, to dive into the impact of GenAI on chip design, Arm’s approach to designing ...

How AI is reshaping developer teams and the future of software development

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this two-part episode of Leaders of Code, Peter O’Connor, Director of Platform Engineering, welcomes Ryan J. Salva, Senior Director of Product at...

We built stackoverflow.ai with the community and for the community

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by our very own Ash Zade, Product Manager, and Alex Warren, Staff Software Engineer, to discuss our newly released stackoverflow.ai, ho...

Kotlin is more than just the Android house language

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Jeffrey van Gogh, Director of Engineering, Android Developer Experience, at Google and board member of the Kotlin Foundation. They discu...

Building AI for consumer applications isn’t all fun and games

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kylan Gibbs, CEO of Inworld, joins the show to discuss the technical challenges of creating interactive AI for virtual worlds and games, the significa...

Open-source is for the people, by the people

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Travis Oliphant, creator of NumPy and SciPy, joins Ryan to explore the development of Python as a data science tool, the evolution of these foundation...

From punch cards to prompts: a history of how software got better

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SPONSORED BY AWSRyan welcomes Darko Mesaroš, Principal Developer Advocate at AWS and all around computer history buff, to chat about history of softw...

Svelte was built on “slinging code for the sheer love of it”

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rich Harris, creator of Svelte and software engineer at Vercel, joins Ryan on the show to dive into the evolution and future of web frameworks. They d...

Learning in the flow: Unlocking employee potential through continuous learning

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar and Christina Dacauaziliqua, Senior Learning Specialist at Morgan Stanle...

Robots in the skies (and they use Transformer models)

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Nathan Michael, CTO at Shield AI, to discuss what AI looks like in defense technologies, both technically and ethically. They cover how ...

The server-side rendering equivalent for LLM inference workloads

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is joined by Tuhin Srivastava, CEO and co-founder of Baseten, to explore the evolving landscape of AI infrastructure and inference workloads, how...

The future of Vue is you (and You)

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Evan You, the creator of Vue.js, to explore the origins of Vue.js, the challenges faced during its development, and the project’s grow...

AI isn’t stealing your job, it’s helping you find it

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Wenjing Zhang, VP of Engineering, and Caleb Johnson, Principal Engineer at LinkedIn, sit down with Ryan to discuss how semantic search and AI have tra...

Python: Come for the language, stay for the community

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan welcomes Paul Everitt, developer advocate at JetBrains and an early adopter of Python, to discuss the history, growth, and future of Python. They...

Being unambiguous in what you want: the software engineer in a vibe coding world

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Quinn Slack, CEO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joins the show to dive into the implications of AI coding tools on the software engineering lifecycle....

The innovation, leadership, and team agility inside U.S. Bank’s cloud journey

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

U.S. Bank has undergone a significant digital transformation, implementing a multi-cloud strategy to accelerate innovation and improve customer-focuse...

That custom gift for your mom takes more work than you think

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Etsy is a global marketplace that keeps human connection at the heart of commerce. Connect with Mahir on LinkedIn.This week’s shoutout goes to user...

Saving the world with speed and at scale

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Speed & Scale Plan is a global initiative to move leaders to act on the climate crisis, tracking progress towards net zero by 2050. Explore S...

“AI has been the wild west”: Creating standards for agents with Sean Falconer

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Confluent is an all-in-one, real-time platform that allows you to stream, connect, process, and govern your data.Connect with Sean on Linkedin, and li...

How to do your job happier

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Read more findings from the Developer Success Lab here. Find John at his website and connect with him on LinkedIn.Congrats to user Matthieu M. who wo...

Where we’re going, we don’t need fossil fuels

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Realta Fusion is making fusion real and tackling today’s clean energy issues with innovative technology. Follow them on LinkedIn.Connect with Kieran...

How your favorite movie is changing language learning technology

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Koel Labs uses classic movies to help learners master pronunciation. You can join the waitlist for their closed beta launch now. Check out their open-...

There is no golden path anymore: Engineering practices are being rewritten

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Ben Matthews, Senior Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow, and Loïc Houssier, CTO at Superhuman, dive into h...

Attention isn’t all we need; we need ownership too

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NEAR is the blockchain for AI, enabling AI agents to transact freely across networks.Connect with Illia on LinkedIn and X, and read the original Trans...

Why call one API when you can use GraphQL to call them all?

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Apollo GraphQL lets you orchestrate APIs with a composable, declarative, self-service model. Apollo's MCP Server is now available.Connect with Matt on...

Programming problems that seem easy, but aren't, featuring Jon Skeet

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Skeet, for those not in the know, is legendary here at Stack Overflow. He even got his own Chuck Norris Facts-style jokes. Jon has graced the pod...

You’ve got 99 problems but data shouldn’t be one

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tobiko Data is creating a new standard in data transformation with their Cloud and SQL integrations. You can keep up with their work by joining their ...

You've vibe coded an app. Now what?

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SPONSORED BY HEROKUHeroku is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for deploying, scaling, and managing apps. Connect with Vish on X and LinkedIn. Congrats...

How to build your prototypes without a 35% tariff

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan and Ben welcome Alex Malcoci, CEO and founder of MiniProto, to talk innovations in hardware prototyping, the evolving complexities of the global ...

Defending the realm: Trust and safety at Stack Overflow

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Trust and Safety team is using aliases in this episode. Learn more about who the Community Management team is at Stack Overflow. Explore how we k...

"My job is going to change in a dramatic way”: Exploring the future of the internet with Cloudflare

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dane shares his excitement about the Model Context Protocol (MCP), exploring its potential impact on the future of technology. The discussion turns to...

After 30 years, Java is still brewing up new features

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Connect with Georges on LinkedIn and see his work on inside.java.Listen to our previous episode with Georges, a celebration of Java’s 25th anniversa...

“We’re not worried about compute anymore”: The future of AI models

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Together AI is a platform for building with open-source and specialized multimodal models. Check out their docs.Connect with Jamie on LinkedIn.Shoutou...

Better vibes and vibe coding with Gemini 2.5

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gemini 2.5 is DeepMind’s most advanced model yet, with strong reasoning and coding capabilities. Connect with Tulsee on LinkedIn.Connect with Logan...

Banking on a serverless world

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Explore how Capital One is using tech to innovate the banking experience here.Connect with Kathleen on LinkedIn and visit her blog. Shoutout to user ...

If an attacker can edit your mobile code, how do you defend your app?

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SPONSORED BY GUARDSQUARELearn more about mobile application security and how to protect your app.Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Chitrakshi for resc...

In a deterministic simulation, you can debug with time travel

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Antithesis is an autonomous testing platform that finds bugs in your software with perfect reproducibility.Connect with Will Wilson on Linkedin.Congra...