The Stack Overflow Podcast - Build vs. buy doesn’t matter. Tool adoption does.

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Episode notes:

Chronosphere is introducing Lens, a cloud-native observability tool to view data flows between services. 

At Uber, Rob created M3, an open-source metrics engine compatible with Prometheus.  

Congrats to Lifeboat badge winner, ralf htp, for their answer to How to read an image in Python OpenCV

If you want to meet Rob and the Chronosphere team, they’ll be at AWS re:Invent  from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Trust as a service for validating OSS dependencies

ICYMI, listen to part one of this conversation.

Craig is the cofounder and CEO of Stacklok, which helps developers and open-source communities build safer software, secure the supply chain, and choose safer dependencies. Stacklok’s free-to-use service, Trusty, employs a statistical analysis of author/repo activity and a package’s source of origin to assess its trustworthiness.

Craig cofounded the Kubernetes project, an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Craig is on LinkedIn.

Stack Overflow user mprivat earned a well-deserved Lifeboat badge by answering Abstract class extending concrete classes.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - How the cocreator of Kubernetes is helping developers build safer software

Stacklok helps developers and open-source communities build safer software, secure the supply chain, and choose safer dependencies. Trusty is their free-to-use service that employs a statistical analysis of author/repo activity and a package’s source of origin to assess its trustworthiness.

Craig cofounded the Kubernetes project, an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

He is also the former VP of Research and Development at VMWare.

Follow Craig on LinkedIn.

Congrats to Stack Overflow user netcorefan, who earned a Lifeboat badge with their answer to Need a workaround to access ReadOnlySpan inside a function that returns an IEnumerable.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - He helped create Jira. Now he’s searching for meaningful engineering metrics

Sleuth helps engineering teams systematically improve efficiency by tracking speed and release quality, preventing slowdowns and bottlenecks, and removing toil and unnecessary friction. Try it for free or see how teams are using Sleuth. Interested in the automations they offer for teams, check out their public marketplace.

Dylan was an original architect on JIRA, so he’s not exactly new to issue- and project-tracking software.

DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) is a research program that tries to understand what drives successful software delivery and operations performance. 

According to Dylan, one thing the best development teams have in common is their culture of continuous learning.

Connect with Dylan on LinkedIn.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Tomasz Tunguz: From Java engineer to investor in eight unicorns

Tomasz is a general partner at Theory Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage software companies.

He coauthored the book Winning with Data, a deep dive into how big data has changed business best practices and organizational culture.

Find Tomasz’s writing here.

Follow Tomasz on LinkedIn or Twitter.com.

In honor of Tomasz’s early career, we’re shouting out Johnny Hujol’s answer to What exactly is a container in J2EE and how does it help?.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Why Stack Overflow is embracing Svelte

Giamir is the tech lead for Stacks, Stack Overflow’s design system.

Svelte is a tool for building web apps. Delve into their docs or, if you’re brand-new to Svelte, start with this interactive tutorial.

More than 90,000 devs responded to our 2023 Developer Survey where Svelte was ranked the second-most admired web framework.  

Connect with Giamir via his website or LinkedIn

Today we’re shouting out a topical question asked by Félix Paradis, who (like 73,000 others) wanted to know How to pass parameters to on:click in Svelte?.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Zero trust with zero problems

Alex and cofounder/CTO Paul Querna started ConductorOne because they saw that traditional identity governance (IGA) and privileged access management (PAM) needed to be rethought for cloud-forward companies.

Before he cofounded Conductor One, Alev Bovee was a senior director of product management for zero trust and security at Okta.

Read Ben’s article about how Computers are learning to decode the language of our minds.

Would you trade an iris scan for some crypto? Sure, what could go wrong?

Connect with Alex on LinkedIn.

Stack Overflow user Matthew Watson earned a Lifeboat badge for helping more than 32,000 people by answering Checking if an array is null or empty.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Forget the 10X engineer—it’s about building a 10X culture

Find out why others have joined Shell

Wondering what it’s like to be a developer at one of the world’s biggest energy companies? They’re hiring.

Behavior-driven development is a conceptual approach to software development that calls for collaboration and alignment between developers, testers, and domain experts.

One of the new technologies James and Tristan helped introduce at Shell is Kafka, an open-source distributed event streaming platform. Check out their docs here.

Engineering teams at Shell use Stack Overflow for Teams to capture and share information. Get started for free here.

Congratulations to David Snabel, winner of a Stellar Question badge for How do I see which version of Swift I’m using?.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Composable architecture

At Netlify Compose 2023, Biilmann announced their new composable web platform

This isn’t Netlify’s first rodeo—we talked to them for episodes 588 and 456.

You can find Matt Biilmann on X or LinkedIn (and perhaps elsewhere). 

Today’s shoutout goes to Dick Lucas who asked a topical question, How to prevent Netlify from treating warnings as errors because process.env.CI = true?, viewed by over 84,000 people.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Forget “No Code.” Adios “Low Code.” Say hello to “Yes Code!”

The company says v0 is intended to author the first draft of your site or app, then help you iterate quickly. It won't mean the end of junior web developers, says Lee, as a polished final draft still requires a human touch. And it's not a low code no code approach, as the system allows you to switch easily between the GenAI approach and the actual code.

You can learn more about v0 here and head over here to join the waitlist.

You can find Lee on LinkedIn or his website.

Congrats to Stack Overflow user Jonathon Reinhart, who earned a Lifeboat badge for answering the question: How can I import a static library in Python?