Making the most of your one-on-one with your manager or other leadership
As many offices go fully remote, learning how to approach key meetings with your manager can pay big dividends.
Failing over without falling over
You’ve gone through the motions and play-acted a disaster recovery scenario, but despite spending a lot on the production, it’s not real. What you have is a fairy tale: “Once upon a time, in theory, if everything works perfectly, we have a plan to survive the disasters we thought of in advance.” In practice, it’s more likely to be a nightmare.
The Overflow #44: Machine learning in production
Welcome to ISSUE #44 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week, get in the fast lane and start pooling your database connections, make a CPU out of electronic components drawn by hand on paper, and learn to toggle multiple property…
Medi Madelen Gwosdz
Content Strategist
The Loop: Our Community Roadmap for Q4 2020
We review our ticket smash event, lay out our roadmap for Q4, and talk about what we've been learning from our moderators.
Sara Chipps
Director of Product, Community
The Stack Overflow Podcast is a weekly conversation about working in software development, learning to code, and the art and culture of computer programming.
October 27, 2020
Podcast 281: The story behind Stack Overflow in Russian
What began as a clone for RuNet evolved into a beloved member of the Stack Exchange family.
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October 23, 2020
Podcast 280: How should tech titans act when productizing tiny open source projects?
You don't get to pick and choose who turns your OS code into something commercial.
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October 20, 2020
Podcast 279: Making Kubernetes work like it’s 1999 with Kelsey Hightower
Can I get that fancy new software, but also, make it just like my old monolith, ok?
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October 16, 2020
Podcast 278: The downside of going viral with your programming joke
You post a skit, and make the whole world laugh. Then the trolls come out to make you miserable. Can we break this cycle?
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How to communicate more deliberately and efficiently when working remotely
When you already know your co-workers and how they approach work, that is fine as they probably haven’t changed all that much since the start of the pandemic. You cannot safely transfer those assumptions to new team members, however, as people remain people, rather than the microservices that they may seem over the internet.
Matthew Gaiser
Director of Content
The Overflow #43: Simulated keyboards
Welcome to ISSUE #43 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week, we’re coding for the long game, learning the difference between cats and not cats, and translating our favorite JRPGs into English. From the blog Play the long game when…
Improve database performance with connection pooling
We tend to rely on caching solutions to improve database performance. Caching frequently-accessed queries in memory or via a database can optimize write/read performance and reduce network latency, especially for heavy-workload applications, such as gaming services and Q&A portals. But you can further improve performance by pooling users’ connections to a database. Client users need…
How to put machine learning models into production
The goal of building a machine learning model is to solve a problem, and a machine learning model can only do so when it is in production and actively in use by consumers. As such, model deployment is as important as model building.
The Overflow #42: Bugs vs. corruption
Welcome to ISSUE #42 of the Overflow: Spooktober Edition! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week: how we’re using our own products, the difference between bugs and corruption, and how Flash games changed the video game industry. From the blog How Stackers ditched the…
Static site generation with single page app functionality? That’s what’s coming Next(.js)
We spoke with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch and Next.js development leader Tim Neutkens about what new features this version brings, what’s next for Next.js, and how their approach helps the faster growing cohort of web users stay online.
Play the long game when learning to code.
Aspiring coders tend to take one of two types of learning approaches. The first involves trying to learn syntax as fast as possible. The second emphasizes understanding above all. It may take longer, but I hope to show how it's better in the end.
