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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Durable execution: autosave for your microservices

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

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Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Vanita L., whose answer to What does the Swift 'mutating' keyword mean? earned them a Lifeboat badge.

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Salesforce wants to do for agentic AI what they did for SaaS

The new Salesforce Developer Edition includes access to Data Cloud and Agentforce, Salesforce’s platform for building, customizing, and deploying autonomous AI agents. Developers can sign up here to start building.

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Instead of a badge, we have a question for you:  If you are a developer who is working with AI agents, what are you building? What tools are you looking for? What problems are you interested in solving with AI tools? Send us an email at podcast@stackoverflow.com. 

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Is the enterprise (actually) ready for AI?

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 at watsonx, as well as a Q&A on why it’s business-ready. 

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Congrats to Stack Overflow user Michael Kolber, who earned a Lifeboat badge with a straightforward and effective answer to Is it possible to download a website’s entire code, HTML, CSS and JavaScript files?.

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Using AI to find patient zero in marketing campaigns

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

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Stack Overflow user krishnan muthiah pillai earned a Lifeboat badge with a top-notch answer to How to forget a wireless network in android programmatically?.

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Moving beyond velocity: Measuring real business impact

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 Ben Popper talk about why velocity should be a diagnostic tool, not the primary goal of engineering teams. They also touch on the need for cross-disciplinary collaboration to align engineering with business objectives. 

They also discuss:

  • AI's potential to automate repetitive tasks, allowing engineers to focus on more complex work.
  • The challenges of scaling organizations and the importance of centralized developer experience teams to improve productivity.
  • How non-technical staff can contribute to engineering tasks through the democratization of technology, enabling more innovation.

Episode notes:

  • Connect with Dan Lines on LinkedIn.
  • If you're looking to improve productivity for your engineering organization, check out LinearB.
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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Improving on a 30-year-old hardware architecture

SambaNova makes a full-stack AI platform and an “intelligent chip” capable of running models of up to five trillion parameters, allowing developers to run state-of-the-art open source models without the time-consuming work of tuning and modeling. See what developers are building with the tech.

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This episode was recorded at HumanX in March. Next year’s event will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today!