The Stack Overflow Podcast

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A director of engineering explains scaling from dozens of employees to thousands Mar 23, 2021

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You can find out more about Suyog and his career here. True story, he once worked on tablets way before tablets were a thing.

He's on Twitter here. You can check out Elastic Cloud and it's suite of services here.

Suyog talks a bit about data gravity, a concept you can learn more about here.

If you're a fan of release notes and want to get a sense of what Suyog worked on at Elastic over the years, check out his blog archives here.

Thanks to our lifeboat badge winner of the week, lhf, for anwering the question: How can I get the current UTC time in a Lua script?

Dev, meet Ops. Ops, meet Dev. Mar 19, 2021

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You can check out more of Tom's work and some of his books on his website, Everything SysAdmin.

Tom also wrote a great blog post for our site that explains his method for crafting a positive feedback loop between Dev and Ops using real-time documentation.

You can find Tom on Twitter and check out his books on Sys Admin and Cloud System Administration.

Taking a risk and moving to a new team Mar 16, 2021

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Ian is Brooklyn bred a tech junkie, NBA stats nerd, hip hop connoisseur, and co-creator of GameFlo and Ujima Now. He graduated from Brown University and was a teaching fellow at FullStack Academy before coming to Stack Overflow. You can find him on Twitter and Github.

Kyle Pollard graduated from the University of Northern British Columbia and worked as a computer technician and programmer for the City of Prince George in Canada. You can find him on Github, Twitter, and his website.

Our lifeboat this week goes to Max Pevsner, who answered a question, but cautioned against taking his advice: Don't reuse cell in UITableView

Covid vaccine websites are frustrating. This developer built a better one. Mar 12, 2021

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It was a pandemic, Olivia was on maternity leave after giving birth, and she also had a toddler to take care of. Somehow she still managed to build a website, macovidvaccines.com, that provided far better service than what was available through government and private industry.

You can find out more about Olivia on the sites below.

Twitter

Website

Building a bug bounty program for the Pentagon Mar 09, 2021

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Cleghorn works for Defense Digital Services. On Twitter, the group describes itself as "a SWAT team of nerds on tours of duty."

You can read more about the group's goals on their website.

You can see some of his work over on Hacker One.

How long does good code last? Mar 05, 2021

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This week's discussion was inspired by an article from Sandi Metz, which you can find here. It begins with a terrific line, defining the half-life of software as, "the amount of time required for half of an application's code to change so much that it becomes unrecognizable."

This topic also connected to a post we ran on the Stack Overflow blog this week, Sacrificial Architecture: learning from abandoned systems. The author, Mohamad Aladdin, suggest that one should "think of your code quality as if it will run forever, but adapt to change as if your code will be obsolete tomorrow."

Our lifeboat badge winner for this episode is Ishmael, who explained why JSON dumps your formatting and how to fix it.

Chatting with Google's DeepMind about the future of AI Mar 02, 2021

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You can find the paper on MuZero here.

He blogs at Furidamu and can be found on Twitter here.

The story on drug discovery powered by AI can be found here.

When it comes to package managers, don't forget security Feb 26, 2021

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If you’re a programmer working with npm, Sara has some basic advice on best practices that will keep your codebase safe.

Today’s discussion was inspired by a blog post from Michel Gorny which you can find here.

Need to simplify the address where people can send you bitcoins? Check out https://ens.domains/, which even offers .club for your TLD.

Thanks to Tagir Valeev for answering the question: How to Split odd and even numbers and sum of both in collection using Stream. You’re our lifeboat badge winner of the week.

How to use interference to your advantage - a quantum computing catch up Feb 23, 2021

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Blake has a PhD in physics from Yale and is the quantum platform lead. You can find him on Twitter here and read some of his recent writing here.

Robert is VP of IBM Quantum Ecosystem Development, IBM Research. He's the author of Dancing with Qubits and has put together a great list of tutorial videos on his website.

No Lifeboat badge winner today, but if you're a fan of Schrödinger's cat, be sure to check out this question from our Quantum Computing Stack Exchange.

Introducing The Stack Overflow Podcast Feb 22, 2021

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Welcome to The Stack Overflow Podcast!