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Stack Overflow Blog
Essays, opinions, and advice on the act of computer programming from Stack Overflow.
Episodes
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Your .NET parallel loop can become serial in a one-CPU container
CPU-based defaults can leave an I/O-heavy loop processing one record at a time. Raising the limit helps, but each downstream service still needs a concurrency…
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Oh, your agents need OAuth2, too
Recorded at LDX3 by LeadDev, Ryan chats with Dan Moore, Senior Director of CIAM Strategy and Identity Standards at FusionAuth, about adapting established…
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It’s ok that computers are (sometimes) better than us
Ryan is joined by Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO at Honeycomb, for a conversation about applying the concept of immutable infrastructure to software…
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The reports of Stack Overflow's death are greatly exaggerated
I’ve seen the recent predictions about Stack Overflow’s demise. They make for compelling headlines, but they confuse a change in how people access knowledge…
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A JSON schema Is not an AI governance layer
The AI governance argument is happening one layer above the code that actually stops your agent.
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Delivering controlled and concentrated context
Check out the new features and capabilities now available in Stack Internal and Stack Internal Community. Try Stack Internal for free by visiting…
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Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java
Ryan sits down with James Gosling, creator of Java at Sun Microsystems, to talk about the early networking friction that drove the need for interconnectedness…
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Rumors of the SaaS demise are greatly exaggerated
Recorded on the floor of LDX3, Ryan chats with Nivia Henry, an engineering leader most recently at Netflix, about the reality of the supposed SaaS apocalypse…
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Survey Says: You'll swap the model, but everything you build around it is staying put
Earlier this month, my team at Stacklok surveyed 520 technical leaders to understand whether they were concerned about being locked into frontier labs. The…
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Don't forget about the UI for AI
Recorded at OpenAI Dev Day 2026, Ryan sits down with Andrew Ambrosino, member of the technical staff at OpenAI, for a conversation on OpenAI's strategy…
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Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide
A maturity model for taking agents from an impressive demo to a system people can depend on — with a self-assessment and the map to a deep-dive on each layer.
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AI says you’re right, formal methods say you’re wrong
Ryan is joined by Gabriela Moreira, CEO at Quint, about why formal specification languages like TLA+ are essential for catching system design flaws before…
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Why your platform team shouldn't build an AI context layer (even though they probably could)
Most engineering teams capable of building an internal AI knowledge system think they should. But six months later, it's a platform team's full-time…
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Your next job doesn’t have a title yet: Emerging role skills Q&A with Cory Hymel of Andela
While the whispers say that everyone is becoming a generalist, that's not where headcount is going.
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Why Your Sandbox Never Quite Matches Production (And Why That's Fine)
Sandbox testing works best when you stop chasing production parity. Learn what environment drift actually costs and which parts are worth fixing.
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Keep calm and call clone with Rust
Ryan sits down with Josh Triplett, member of the Rust Leadership Team at the Rust Project, to chat about how the borrow checker delivers compile-time memory…
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Beyond the AI noise: How Stack Overflow is rethinking tech hiring
It’s gotten exponentially harder to identify talent that we feel is a good fit for our teams at the top of the application funnel.
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Taking a look under your agent’s hood
Ryan is joined by Yanbing Li, Chief Product Officer at Datadog, to talk about applying observability to non-deterministic AI agents, blurring the boundaries…
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Part 5: Operating an LLM system: observability, cost, routing, and the platform underneath
Your service can be 100% up and still quietly approving the wrong things, burning its budget, or failing over into untested quality. Level 5 is the…
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A green exit code is not evidence that the work happened
Agents don't build trust for another reason, structurally worse than the first. It isn't only that the tool keeps changing shape. It's that the…
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Part 6: An operating system for coding agents: the disciplined build
Coding agents are great for an afternoon and mediocre for a quarter. Here’s the small set of files and rules — with the actual configs — that keeps quality…
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Tales from the 2026 Developer Survey results
Ryan chats with Erin Yepis, Senior Analyst at Stack Overflow, about the results from this year’s Annual Developer Survey, including the overwhelming daily…
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The results of the 2026 Developer Survey are here!
Below, we’ll highlight some of the results we found interesting about what's going in the life of technologists, their technologies, AI usage, and more.
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Constraints that make developers faster
Ryan chats with Julien Verlaguet, CEO at Skip Labs, about finding the balance between human tolerance and tooling constraints, the spectrum of typed…
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A look back before we look forward: A Developer Survey retrospective
This analysis compares the 2024 and 2025 Developer Survey data across three connected stories: the evolution of AI, humans at work, and demographics and…
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Organizations need decision-grade knowledge. AI makes it urgent.
AI can make the first part remarkably fast. It can find the page, the discussion and the person who might know. The harder work begins when those sources…
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Anyone can start building verified knowledge with Stack Internal
Stack Internal transforms your daily work into a living memory that’s shared with the rest of your team. Now anyone can create and share their knowledge in a…
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Your phone is AI’s newest hardware
Ryan sits down with Div Garg, CEO at AGI Inc., to talk about running AI agents entirely on mobile devices, optimizing models for edge computing chips, and…
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Why model versioning is not enough for production AI
An MLOps workflow for evaluating deploying and rolling back AI applications
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Professional skepticism is a dev’s best skill
Ryan chats with David Burns, Head of Developer Advocacy and Open Source at BrowserStack, about the value of professional skepticism in an AI-driven world…
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Multiplayer AI: Why your team (and its agents) need a group chat
Ryan chats with the GM of Slack, Rob Seaman, about how their new Code Channels feature is bringing multiplayer AI to your team chats.
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Haters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCm
Ryan chats with Anush Elangovan, VP of Software at AMD, about ROCm's open-source unified toolchain for GPUs, how agentic AI is drastically lowering the…
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The AI magic words
From the floor of the Ai4 conference, Ryan sits down with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO at O'Reilly Media, to talk about the role of books as user…
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From better privacy to our new ChatGPT plugin, here's what's new on Stack Overflow for Agents
We've learned a lot in the last three months since launching Stack Overflow for Agents, our API-first knowledge exchange for agents. Here's a few of…
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AI, JD, and other letters of the law
From the floor of the Ai4 conference, Ryan chats with Kevin Frazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law program at the University of Texas School of Law…
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AI cybersecurity is a cat and mouse game
From the floor of the Ai4 conference, Ryan chats with Sam Curry, CSO at Zscaler, about where human intelligence sits in the new security landscape with AI, why…
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(Re)introducing Developer Story
For the past few years, we’ve been looking at ways to bring a little more of the individual developer back to Stack.
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Java’s age is its AI superpower
Ryan welcomes Markus Eisele to the program to talk about why your coding agent should be writing Java.
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Scaling your money safely with AI
From the floor of the Ai4 conference, Ryan chats with Srini Venkatesan, CTO at PayPal, about validating AI-generated deterministic code for security…
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How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent
From the floor of the Ai4 conference, Ryan chats with Greg Jennings, VP of Engineering for AI Products at Anaconda, about what it takes to build a…
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Elevating security, control, and accessibility: Stack Internal 2026.6
In our 2026.6 release, we are shipping updates across administrative security, programmatic API control, developer portal integrations, and platform-wide…
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The economics of agent scale: tokens, ROI, and building platforms for AI-first teams (Part 2)
Andi Gutmans, head of Agentic Data Cloud at Google, returns for the second half of his Leaders of Code conversation to talk through the cost and infrastructure…
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The good ol’ days of building Java
Ryan sits down with Tim Lindholm, an early contributor to the Java language at Sun Microsystems, to chat about what it was like building one of the most…
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When you keep AI Lean, you keep AI correct
Ryan chats with Leo de Moura, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at AWS and the creator of the Lean language, about proving correctness in AI agents with the…
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Inside LinkedIn's cognitive memory agent for agentic personalization
Ryan is joined by Praveen Bodigutla, Principal AI Researcher at LinkedIn, to chat about the four-layer memory system his team built to give LinkedIn's…
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Responsible AI adoption needs developer workflow design
Organizations cannot solve shadow AI with a document employees read once. They need to make responsible use easier than improvised use.