The Stack Overflow Podcast
Episodes
Breaking your AI storage bottlenecks
22 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded at HumanX, Ryan sits down with Garima Kapoor and Anand Babu Periasamy, co-founders and co-CEOs of MinIO, to chat about eliminating the storag...
Pack your agentic stack in Slack
20 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
SPONSORED BY SLACK BY SALESFORCERyan welcomes Jaime DeLanghe, chief product officer at Slack, to chat about how they’re preparing to integrate every...
Your fridge could be a threat to national security
19 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by Adam Meyers, Senior VP of Counter Adversary Operations at Crowdstrike, for a deep dive on their latest Gl...
Observability and human intuition in an AI world
15 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this two for one episode recorded at HumanX, Ryan is first joined by Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb, to discuss how AI compresses the software dev...
How Braze’s CTO is rethinking engineering for the agentic area
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Hyman, co-founder and CTO of Braze, joins Stack Overflow CPTO Jody Bailey on Leaders of Code to share how he's led the company's engineering organ...
Connecting the dots for accurate AI
12 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At HumanX, Ryan is joined by Philip Rathle, CTO at Neo4j to discuss what knowledge context means for AI agents, how limitations like stale training da...
AI giveth and AI taketh CPU
08 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded on the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by AMD CTO Mark Papermaster to discuss AMD’s silicon strategy for AI borne of their long history of ...
What (un)exactly do you mean by semantic search?
05 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan welcomes Bryan O’Grady, Head of Field Research and Solutions Architecture at Qdrant, to discuss the differences between traditional text sea...
Time is a construct but it can still break your software
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan welcomes Jason Williams, senior software engineer at Bloomberg and the creator of Rust-based JavaScript engine Boa, to the show to dive int...
Your LLM issues are really data issues
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan welcomes Harsha Chintalapani, co-founder and CTO at Collate and co-creator of Open Metadata, to the show to discuss why AI and LLMs struggle with...
Lights, camera, open source!
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan is joined on the show by Cult.Repo producers Emma Tracey and Josiah Mcgarvie to discuss making documentaries about open-source software and the p...
How to get multiple agents to play nice at scale
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
SPONSORED BY INTUITChase Roossin, group engineering manager, and Steven Kulesza, staff software engineer, from Intuit join the podcast to chat about w...
We still need developer communities
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan welcomes Mike Swift, co-founder and CEO of Major League Hacking, to the show to chat about the never-ending need for software developer communiti...
No country left behind with sovereign AI
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan welcomes Stephen Watt, distinguished engineer and VP of Red Hat’s Office of the CTO, to chat about digital sovereignty and sovereign AI. They e...
Who needs VCs when you have friends like these?
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan welcomes RunPod co-founder and CEO Zhen Lu to discuss circumventing VC money by going straight to your community for funding, how Zhen balances f...
The messy truth of your AI strategies
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan welcomes Hema Raghavan, co-founder and head of engineering at Kumo.ai, to dive into all the messy stuff that comes with implementing AI, from pip...
He designed C++ to solve your code problems
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan welcomes Bjarne Stroustrup, designer of C++ and professor at Columbia, to the show to dive into all things C++, from its history to where it's go...
Seizing the means of messenger production
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan sits down with Galen Wolfe-Pauly, CEO of Tlon, to chat about calm computing and how humans can take back ownership of their data and digital worl...
How can you test your code when you don’t know what’s in it?
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan hosts SmartBear’s VP of AI and Architecture Fitz Nowlan to explore how we’re moving away from old assumptions about software development, the...
Prevent agentic identity theft
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan is joined by Nancy Wang, CTO of 1Password, to discuss the security challenges local agents present, how enterprises can create robust governance ...
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...