The Stack Overflow Podcast - At scale, anything that could fail definitely will

Pradeep talks about building at global scale and preparing for inevitable system failures. He talks about extra layers of security, including viewing your own VMs as untrustworthy. And he lays out where he thinks the world of cloud computing is headed as GenAI becomes a bigger piece of many company’s tech stack. 

You can find Pradeep on LinkedIn. He also writes a blog and hosts a podcast over at Oracle First Principles

Congrats to Stack Overflow user shantanu, who earned a Great Question badge for asking: 

Which shell I am using in mac?

 Over 100,000 people have benefited from your curiosity.

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

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 Slack community, in the OTel SIG channel, or the client-side SIG channels. The calendar is public on opentelemetry.io. Embrace has its own Slack community to talk all things Embrace or all things mobile observability. You can join that by going to embrace.io as well.

Congrats to Stack Overflow user Cottentail for earning an Illuminator badge, awarded when a user edits and answers 500 questions, both actions within 12 hours.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Where does Postgres fit in a world of GenAI and vector databases?

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

Timescale is a startup working on an open-source PostgreSQEL stack for AI applications. You can follow the company on X and check out their work on GitHub

You can learn more about Avthar on his website and on LinkedIn

Congrats to Stack Overflow user Haymaker for earning a Great Question badge. They asked: 

How Can I Override the Default SQLConnection Timeout

? Nearly 250,000 other people have been curious about this same question.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - From PHP to JavaScript to Kubernetes: how backend engineering evolved

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 and containers.

Congrats to Stack Overflow user Matthew Reed for earning a populist badge with his answer to the question: GitHub: How to do case sensitive search for the code in repository?

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Ryan Dahl explains why Deno had to evolve with version 2.0

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 compelled to create Deno.

You can learn more about Ryan on Wikipedia, his website, and his Github page.

To learn more about Deno 2.0, listen to Ryan talk about it here and check out the project’s Github page here.

Congrats to Hugo G, who earned a Great Answer Badge for his input on the following question: 

How can I declare and use Boolean variables in a shell script?

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Battling ticket bots and untangling taxes at the frontiers of e-commerce

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 commerce architecture without reducing it to a (false) binary choice between microservices and monoliths."

As Ilya notes, “there are a lot of interesting implications for runtime and how we're solving it at Shopify. There is a direct bridge there to a performance conversation as well: moving untrusted scripts off the main thread, sandboxing UI extensions, and more.” 

No badge winner today. Instead, user Kaizen has a question about Shopify that still needs an answer. Maybe you can help! 

How to Activate Shopify Web Pixel Extension on Production Store?

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Scaling systems to manage the data about the data

Coalesce is a solution to transform data at scale. 

You can find Satish on LinkedIn

We previously spoke to Satish for a Q&A on the blog: AI is only as good as the data: Q&A with Satish Jayanthi of Coalesce

We previously covered metadata on the blog: Metadata, not data, is what drags your database down

Congrats to Lifeboat winner nwinkler for saving this question with a great answer: Docker run hello-world not working

 

The Stack Overflow Podcast - How we’re making Stack Overflow more accessible

Read Dan’s blog post about the process of making Stack Overflow more accessible.

We followed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), with a few exceptions. For example, we chose to measure color contrast using the Accessible Perceptual Contrast Algorithm (APCA)

We quantified the accessibility of our products using the Axe accessibility testing engine.

Our accessibility dashboard helps our internal teams and the community track the accessibility of our products: Stacks (our design system), the public platform (Stack Overflow and all Stack Exchange sites), and Stack Overflow for Teams (including Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise products). 

We also implemented robust accessibility testing and made those rules open-source in a comprehensive package you can find here.

Shoutout to user Beejor for an excellent answer to the question What is the largest safe UDP packet size on the internet?.

The Stack Overflow Podcast - Unpacking the 2024 Developer Survey results

Read the blog post or dive into the results of our 2024 Developer Survey.

A few highlights to get you started: 

Speaking of our developer community, Stack Overflow user Frank earned a Stellar Question badge by wondering How to use C++ in Go.