The Stack Overflow Podcast

Getting rid of the pain for developers on Shopify

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Check out Shopify’s newest updates on their editions page, including Horizons and their new AI capabilities with Sidekick.Connect with Glen Coates o...

Understanding the limitations of AI is crucial for enterprise success

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The discussion also: Touches on the role, evolution, and adoption of AI agents, emphasizing their growing integration into systems, while addressing k...

“The future is agents”: Building a platform for RAG agents

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contextual AI offers a platform for building RAG agents. Get started with their docs here.Connect with Douwe on LinkedIn. Congrats to Stack Overflow ...

WBIT #8: Typescript for gut biomes

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jona provides an AI-powered gut biome test for clinicians and patients alike. Connect with Tyler on Twitter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com...

Can a dev environment spark joy? The Android team thinks so.

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Get the whole rundown of what’s new in this version of Android Developer’s Studio. Google I/O just happened, and the Android team announced a bun...

Durable execution: autosave for your microservices

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

DBOS Transact is a lightweight, open-source library that makes durable execution simple so you no longer need to worry about manually coding retries a...

Salesforce wants to do for agentic AI what they did for SaaS

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The new Salesforce Developer Edition includes access to Data Cloud and Agentforce, Salesforce’s platform for building, customizing, and deploying au...

Next-level observability: live breakpoint debugging

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dynatrace is an AI-powered observability platform. It empowers today’s AI-enabled digital enterprises to understand their systems and data so they c...

Is the enterprise (actually) ready for AI?

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

watsonx.ai is an enterprise-grade AI studio. Developers can get started in the watsonx Developer Hub.We published a technical behind-the-scenes look a...

Using AI to find patient zero in marketing campaigns

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alembic is an AI platform that helps organizations see how marketing spend connects to revenue so they can illuminate blind spots and make more inform...

Moving beyond velocity: Measuring real business impact

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Leaders of Code, Dan Lines, cofounder and COO of LinearB; Ben Matthews, Senior Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow; and host ...

Mastering microservices with a former Uber and Netflix architect

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Orkes is a developer-first enterprise workflow orchestration platform. Explore the developer edition or dive into the docs.Before cofounding Orkes, Je...

Improving on a 30-year-old hardware architecture

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SambaNova makes a full-stack AI platform and an “intelligent chip” capable of running models of up to five trillion parameters, allowing developer...

“We’re not replacing you; we’re with you”: Where AI meets infrastructure

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Geminus platform is built to automatically integrate data, physics, and computation for autonomous control of complex systems. Explore the platfor...

Grab bag! On the floor at HumanX

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Dhaliwal is the founder and CEO of CodeConductor.Priya Joseph is the AI field CEO at DDN.Lizzie Siegle is a developer advocate at Cloudflare.Erin...

Standardization and simplification as key to engineering excellence

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

They also discuss: Lloyds Banking Group's multi-year journey to drive simplification and standardization, reduce cognitive load & improve engineer...

Visually orchestrating data diagnostics but platform agnostic

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dataiku orchestrates data stacks and lets you create analytics, models, and agents.Find Florian on LinkedIn. This episode was recorded at HumanX last...

Generating components, not tokens

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bit lets you generate composable software simplicity, speed and quality. Connect with Laly on LinkedIn. Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner and blog c...

WBIT #7: Exploring WebAssembly with the first SO user to get 10k rep

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kyle notes that his only experience with WebAssembly is Blazor. If you’re wondering about Blazor, we covered it on the blog in 2020. While Michael ...

How AI can prevent clinician burnout

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lunar Analytics specializes in AI-powered claim optimization and healthcare solutions. Connect with Richard on LinkedIn. Knowtex allows healthcare p...

How do you fact-check an AI?

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vectara is a platform-as-a-service that allows users to build AI assistants and agents. Get started with their docs.This interview was recorded at Hum...

“There is a real cost to moving fast”: Using AI to accelerate drug discovery

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

They also: Explore key challenges engineering leaders face, including data capacity, relevance, and throttling issues. Highlight how emerging AI tools...

WBIT #6: Be curious, ask questions, and don’t argue with JavaScript

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When this episode was recorded, Jesse worked for WaveSeven Consulting, which provides business advisory and project delivery support for media and ent...

Bottom of the first: A veteran VC’s take on the AI landscape

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tomasz is a general partner at Theory Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage software companies.He’s a coauthor of Winning with Dat...

Is AI a bubble or a revolution? The answer is yes.

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

2024 was a defining year for AI investment. Read the HumanX/Crunchbase report.You can learn more about HumanX or register for next year’s event, Apr...

Boots on the ground: Holistic AI and Audioshake at HumanX

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Holistic AI is an AI governance platform that helps the enterprise adopt and scale AI.Audioshake uses AI to mix, master, and separate music and other ...

“Are AI agents ready for the enterprise?”

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Deepak works on Amazon Q Developer, a GenAI-powered coding assistant that includes autonomous agents.Thinking, Fast and Slow by psychologist Daniel Ka...

AI is shifting focus from syntax to critical thinking

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

They also: Emphasize the critical role of customer feedback in shaping products, highlighting how continuous feedback loops drive innovation and impro...

“The power of the humble embedding”

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pinecone is a purpose-built vector database. Get started with their docs here.Connect with Edo on LinkedIn. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/p...

An AI future free of slop

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Read more about Stack Overflow’s future here.Learn more about HumanX here. Missed it this year? The event takes place again on April 7-9, 2026 in Sa...

WBIT #5: Building a framework to lure web devs to mobile

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ionic is a platform for building and deploying modern mobile applications and micro frontend experiences. It’s open source, too. Two mobile tools g...

Improving error monitoring with AI

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sentry is an application monitoring software. Explore the Sentry docs or get started in the sandbox.Connect with Tillman on LinkedIn. You can also rea...

Can climate tech startups address the current crisis?

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lisbeth cofounded and coleads the Compute for Climate Fellowship, which funds climate tech startups using advanced cloud computing and AI. Application...

Junky data is like an out-of-tune guitar—it prevents AI harmony

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Leaders of Code, a new business segment of the Stack Overflow podcast. On this show, we chat with business, tech, and engineering leaders f...

Sharing the power of the command line

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Warp is an intelligent terminal that combines AI tools and developer resources in one interface. Zach’s hope was to give more developers access to t...

Is Postgres the best database for GenAI?

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Postgres is an open-source database. EDB offers enterprise-grade features and support for Postgres from self-managed to fully-managed, cloud-based DBa...

How can AI perform on the edge?

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode notes:Infineon is a global semiconductor company for power systems and IoT.You can connect with Clark and Alexander on LinkedIn. Congrats to ...

Secure coding beyond just memory safety

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Semgrep is an AppSec platform that lets devs deploy static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), and secret scans....

“Translation is the tip of the iceberg”: A deep dive into specialty models

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Smartling is an enterprise translation platform that includes AI-powered translation solutions.Connect with Olga on LinkedIn. Kudos to Stack Overflow...

Writing tests with AI, but not LLMs

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Diffblue Cover is an AI agent for testing complex Java code at scale. Check out their docs to get started automating unit tests today.This article wil...

One quality every engineering manager should have? Empathy.

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

CLEAR is an identity company trying to take the friction out of air travel (such as with TSA PreCheck, available through CLEAR), stadium events, and o...

WBIT #4: Using GIS to understand the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Forerunner provides a platform for floodplain management. Do you also have gnarly caching issues? Check out an overview of how we use caching at Stac...

Why is it so hard for companies to protect your privacy?

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Transcend is a data privacy and governance platform. See what they’re up to on their blog or dive into their docs.Find Minh on LinkedIn.Stack Overfl...

Solving the data doom loop

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hasura is a GraphQL API platform. Get started exploring here.Read Ken’s article on the data doom loop.Find Ken on LinkedIn. Shoutout to Stack Overf...

A distributed database that can withstand a meteor strike

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OceanBase is an open-source distributed database. Check it out on GitHub.For more information, follow OceanBase on LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.To connect...

“In the short term, more chaos”: What’s next for API design

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Speakeasy builds API tooling for developers.Find Sagar on LinkedIn. Kudos to Stack Overflow user Bergi, who earned a Lifeboat badge with an exemplary...

Why build your own vector DB? To process 25,000 images per second

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Verkada is a cloud-based video security company. Back in the innocent days of 2021, we spoke with a company that makes smart dashcams. See how far vi...

Will the web ever be the primary delivery system for 3D games?

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tres.js is an open-source 3D engine for Vue built on Three.js. Find Jaime on LinkedIn or GitHub or explore his creative lab.Push is a browser-based i...

Feature flags: Theory meets reality

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Schematic offers SDKs for packaging, pricing, and entitlements. Check out Ben’s article on feature flags. Listen to Bill Tarr from AWS and Brian R...

“Countries are coming online tomorrow, whole countries”

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ClickUp is a work and chat platform designed to streamline workflows and make people more productive.You can find RJ on LinkedIn or explore his posts ...

How the internet changed in 2024

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Check out Cloudflare’s 2024 Year in Review.Read John’s posts on the Cloudflare blog or connect with him on LinkedIn. Shoutout to user Timo Kähkö...

WBIT#3: Can good team dynamics make Agile obsolete?

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ApartmentAdvisor helps renters find apartments and navigate more complicated markets. What were the people who wrote the Agile Manifesto thinking? Li...

The developer skill you might be neglecting

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Find Geoffrey (Jef) Huck on LinkedIn or check out his website.Stack Overflow user Matt earned a Lifeboat badge by explaining What is the difference be...

Robots building robots in a robotic factory

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Postman is an API development platform that lets developers prototype, document, test, and demo all their APIs in one place.Postman’s cofounder and ...

“Data is the key”: Twilio’s Head of R&D on the need for good data

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Twilio, a communication platform as a service (CPaaS), allows developers to build voice, video, and messaging capabilities into their apps. Devs can g...

Failing fast at scale: Rapid prototyping at Intuit

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To learn more about technology or careers at Intuit, visit intuit.com/technology. Want to read more about rapid prototyping at Intuit?To connect with...

WBIT #2: Memories of persistence and the state of state

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Polly is an embedded insurance company, which means you buy the insurance for a car or house at the same time as you buy the car or house itself.  ...

How AI apps are like Google Search

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jetify gives developers a cloud environment for building AI powered applications. Check out their blog or explore Jetify Cloud, a suite of managed se...

How developers (really) used AI coding tools in 2024

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Whether AI coding tools are making your code worse, how AI can improve pull requests, building software through prompt engineering, u...

Balancing business and open source in 2024

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: The birth of React, how the world’s biggest open-source business is leveraging LLMs, the creator of Jenkins on CI/CD, the creator o...

How developer jobs (and the job market) changed in 2024

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Why developers need to upskill faster than ever, the relationship between stock prices and layoffs, how the job market for developers...

“I wanted to play with computers”: a chat with a new Stack Overflow engineer

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Adora is the author of Cloud Engineering for Beginners, Beginning Azure DevOps, and Confident Cloud.She’s also the founder and executive director of...

Legal advice from an AI is illegal

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alexi leverages AI to streamline litigation workflows and speed up research, with an eye to giving lawyers more time and energy to devote to client st...

AI agents that help doctors get paid

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thoughtful AI provides AI agents that help revenue cycle management (RCM) teams get providers their money from insurance companies. Does AI have a be...

What security teams need to understand about developers

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NightVision offers web and API security testing tools built to integrate with developers’ established workflows. NightVision identifies issues by pr...

From bugs to performance to perfection: pushing code quality in mobile apps

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Instabug helps developers monitor, prioritize, and debug performance and stability issues throughout the mobile app development lifecycle. Get started...

Even high-quality code can lead to tech debt

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tabnine is an AI code assistant that offers AI tools for code generation, testing, and code review.Eran was previously a researcher at IBM, where he w...

Your docs are your infrastructure

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fabrizio is now the lead documentation engineer Tinybird, a data platform for user-facing analytics. Get started with their docs or explore their blog...

The app that fights for your data privacy rights

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sukhi is a senior product manager for Permission Slip by Consumer Reports, an app to help people exercise their digital data privacy rights.Consumer R...

We'll Be In Touch: A New Podcast From Stack Overflow!

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hello everyone and welcome to the very first episode of We'll Be in Touch, a new podcast series from Stack Overflow. This show will explore the world...

The open-source ecosystem built to reduce tech debt

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Moderne is an open-source company building automated source code transformations for framework migrations, vulnerability patches, and API migrations. ...

Meet the guy responsible for building the Call of Duty game engine

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chris works at Sledgehammer Games (a division of Activision), which develops titles in the Call of Duty franchise. Explore their open roles here.Want ...

A student of Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Jeff Dean explains where AI is headed

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Clarifai is a developer-friendly AI workflow orchestration platform built to help devs integrate AI into technical workflows and customer experiences....

One of the world’s biggest web scrapers has some thoughts on data ownership

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Or Lenchner is the CEO of Bright Data, a web data platform that offers ready-made datasets, proxy networks, and AI-powered web scrapers. Developers ca...

How Google is helping developers get better answers from AI

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Logan previously worked at OpenAI, where he led developer relations. He’s now a senior product manager for Google AI Studio, the fastest way for dev...

How a creator of React is rethinking IDEs

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Want to learn more about the early days of React? React.js: The Documentary gives you the full story from the perspective of the developers who create...

Life in the Fastlane: SDK tools built with developers in mind

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

 Fastlane by PayPal is an accelerated guest checkout experience. Visit theFastlane Resource Center for Developers to get started.You can find Sunny ...

How can you get your kids into coding? We asked an 8-year-old app builder.

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Watch Fay build a Harry Potter-themed chatbot with an assist from AI.Cursor is the AI code editor Fay’s using. Get started with their docs.Connect w...

Tragedy of the (data) commons

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Data Provenance Initiative is a collective of volunteer AI researchers from around the world. They conduct large-scale audits of the massive datas...

The new pair programming: an AI agent that cleans your code as you write

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tariq Shaukat, the former president of Google Cloud and Bumble, is the CEO of Sonar. Follow him on LinkedIn.Sonar offers code quality and security sol...

How API security is evolving for the GenAI era

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Solo.io provides API gateway, service mesh, and internal developer portal solutions. Follow Solo.io on X or LinkedIn or dig into the docs.Want to bru...

The team behind Unity 6 explains the new features aimed at helping developers

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan is a VP of Product focused on the Unity Engine and AI services. You can find him on LinkedIn and X.Martin Best is a Principal Product Architect w...

What launching rockets taught this CTO about hardware observability

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sift is an end-to-end observability stack for safety-critical hardware development. See what they’re up to on their blog.We talked to SpaceX about t...

Is this the real life? Training autonomous cars with simulations

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Helm.ai licenses AI software throughout the L2-L4 autonomous driving stack, which includes perception, intent modeling, path planning, and vehicle con...

Think you don’t need observability? Think again

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Memento is a real-time data platform designed to help developers ship better products faster. Explore the platform here or get started in the docs. C...

Meet the AI native developers who build software through prompt engineering

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can find Crystal on LinkedIn.You can learn more about FSH Tech here.Congrats to Stack OVerflow user David Conrad, who earned a lifeboat badge for ...

A developer works to balance the data center boom with his climate change battle

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can find David on LinkedIn.You can learn more about Arcjet here.You can subscribe to to the console.dev newsletter and podcast here.Congrats to St...

This dev went from coding at Meta, to search at Google, to investing in AI with Anthropic

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can find Deedy on Twitter and LinkedIn.You can learn more about the Anthology Fund here.You can learn more about Menlo Ventures here.Congrats to S...

He sold his first company for billions. Now he’s building a better developer experience.

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jyoti is a cofounder and CEO of Harness, a software delivery platform meant to modernize your DevOps tooling and take the friction out of CI/CD. Devs...

How to detect errors in AI-generated code

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Read the paper Gias coauthored about incorrectness in AI-generated code or explore more of his research. You can connect with Gias via his website.We...

Looking under the hood of multimodal AI

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Multimodal AI combines different modalities—audio, video, text, etc.—to enable more humanlike engagement and higher-quality responses from the AI ...

The world’s largest open-source business has plans for enhancing LLMs

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Red Hat Enterprise Linux may be the world’s largest open-source software business. You can dive into the docs here.Created by IBM and Red Hat, Instr...

The evolution of full stack engineers

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From her early days coding on a TI-84 calculator, to working as an engineer at IBM, to pivoting over to her new role in DevRel, speaking, and communit...

The creator of Jenkins discusses CI/CD and balancing business with open source

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can learn more about Kohsuke on his website.You can read more about Jenkins here.You can read more about Cloudbees here.Shout to Mossmyr for contr...

At scale, anything that could fail definitely will

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pradeep talks about building at global scale and preparing for inevitable system failures. He talks about extra layers of security, including viewing ...

Mobile Observability: monitoring performance through cracked screens, old batteries, and crappy Wi-Fi

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can learn more about Austin on LinkedIn and check out a blog he wrote on building the SDK for Open Telemetry here.You can find Austin at the CNCF ...

Where does Postgres fit in a world of GenAI and vector databases?

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For the last two years, Postgres has been the most popular database among respondents to our Annual Developer Survey. Timescale is a startup working ...

From PHP to JavaScript to Kubernetes: how backend engineering evolved

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can learn more about Geshan on his website or check him out on LinkedIn.Geshan also shared the slide decks for a few of his talks on serverless an...

Ryan Dahl explains why Deno had to evolve with version 2.0

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve never seen it, check out Ryan’s classic talk, 10 Things I Regret About Node.JS, which gives a great overview of the reasons he felt comp...

Battling ticket bots and untangling taxes at the frontiers of e-commerce

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You can find Ilya on LinkedIn here.You can listen to Ilya talk about Commerce Components here, a system he describes as a "modern way to approach your...