The 2021 Stack Overflow Developer Survey is here!
Our data reveals some fascinating trends in education, remote work, and web frameworks.
The strange domain names that developers bought
Not every domain is serious business. Here's a few of the fun ones that we at Stack Overflow owned, as well as those owned by our community.
How writing can advance your career as a developer
“In their first few years on the job, engineers spend roughly 30% of their workday writing, while engineers in middle management write for 50% to 70% of their day; those in senior management reportedly spend over 70% and as much as 95% of their day writing.” - Jon Leydens
Communities are a catalyst for technology development
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The Stack Overflow Podcast is a weekly conversation about working in software development, learning to code, and the art and culture of computer programming.
August 13, 2021
Podcast 366: Move fast and make sure nobody gets pager alerts at 2AM
No one should be woken up because there was a misconfiguration in a YAML file and it pointed a DB to the wrong location.
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August 10, 2021
Podcast 365: Fake your own voice with AI, podcasting has never been easier
We chat with Andrew Mason, CEO of Descript, about the future of AI-assisted content creation.
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August 6, 2021
Podcast 364: What’s the blast radius when your database goes down?
From Oracle to AWS to MongoDB, Mark Porter has played a pivotal role in the history and development of software databases.
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August 3, 2021
Podcast 363: Highlights from our 2021 Developer Survey
We learned a lot from the more than 80,000 respondents who took the time to answer our questionnaire.
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The Loop: Our Community & Public Platform Roadmap for Q3 2021
Here's a brief recap of what we accomplished in Q2, along with details on our Q3 plans.
Philippe Beaudette
VP-Community
700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built
Dwarf Fortress is one of those oddball passion projects that’s broken into Internet consciousness. It’s a free game where you play either an adventurer or a fortress full of dwarves in a randomly generated fantasy world. The simulation runs deep, with new games creating multiple civilizations with histories, mythologies, and artifacts. I reached out to him to see how he’s managed a single, growing codebase over 15+ years, the perils of pathing, and debugging dead cats. Our conversation below has been edited for clarity.
A deep dive into how we designed Collectives
Here's a detailed look into how we designed Collectives, starting from the initial ideation to all the decisions and considerations that led to what it is today.
Level Up: Linear Regression in Python – Part 8
In the eighth and final lesson of the series we’ll practice everything we’ve learned to date by loading and preparing some data, fitting a few different models, and comparing them. This is an open-ended session where we’ll examine some questions from our audience and demonstrate what a data analysis workflow could look like. If you…
Why you should build on Kubernetes from day one
If you’re building a new app today, it might be worth taking a closer look at making it cloud-native and using Kubernetes from the jump. The effort to set up Kubernetes is less than you think. Certainly, it’s less than the effort it would take to refactor your app later on to support containerization.
Privacy is an afterthought in the software lifecycle. That needs to change.
The key to combining privacy and innovation is baking it into the SDLC. Analogous to application security's (AppSec) upstream shift into the development cycle, privacy belongs at the outset of development, not as an afterthought. Here's why.
Getting started with… Python
Here's a collection of resources on how to get started using Python.
