Pandemic lockdowns accelerated cloud migration by three to four years
The number of questions across Stack Overflow surged, and new research solidifies this trend.
Observability is key to the future of software (and your DevOps career)
Observability platforms enable you to easily figure out what’s happening with every request and to identify the cause of issues fast. Learning the principles of observability and OpenTelemetry will set you apart from the crowd and provide you with a skill set that will be in increasing demand as more companies perform cloud migrations.
Scaling front end design with a design system
If you're building the same UI components over and over, you might need a design system.
Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 4
In the fourth and final lesson of the series, we’ll learn how to use SwiftUI navigation to present different views to the user. We’ll build a welcome screen with instructions for the user as well as a final screen with their results to the quiz. A user will also have the option to re-take the…
The Stack Overflow Podcast is a weekly conversation about working in software development, learning to code, and the art and culture of computer programming.
September 10, 2021
Podcast 374: How valuable is your screen name?
Some spicy takes on image compression, super resolution, and the enduring value of your oldest screen names
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September 8, 2021
Podcast 373: Authorization is complex. Oso is a library designed to help you structure it.
What if it was as easy to add authorization logic to your app as it was to add user authentication?
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September 3, 2021
Podcast 372: Why yes, I do have a patent on a time machine
This week we chat with Angie Jones, Java champion, prolific inventor, and senior director of developer relations at Applitools. She previously held roles at Twitter and IBM. She explains why visual testing can catch things you would miss if you just scan the DOM, what actually makes a 10x developer, and how she secured a…
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August 31, 2021
Podcast 371: Exploring the magic of instant Python refactoring with Sourcery
Who needs a pair programmer?
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Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 3
In the third lesson of the series, we’ll continue to incorporate the MVVM architecture and build a view model for our quiz app which mediates communication between the view and the model. Additionally, we’ll build a game model structure and add more questions and functionality for new questions to appear as the user advances through…
Diagnose engineering process failures with data visualization
Here's three areas where data visualization can make your engineering life easier.
You’re living in the Metaverse, you just don’t know it yet.
The concept of the Metaverse was coined by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson decades ago. Have we reached some meaningful inflection point in our journey towards this dream?
Ben Popper
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Level Up: Build a Quiz App with SwiftUI – Part 2
In the second lesson of the series, we’ll add state to our quiz app so that it can show users whether they answered correctly. We’ll also build out a model for our quiz questions, and add a settings tab. Here are some Stack Overflow questions related to the work we did in today’s session: What…
Celebrating the Stack Exchange sites that turned 10 years old
We're more than just StackOverflow.com; here's a few of the sites in the Stack Exchange network that have been around for a decade!
Ben Popper and Juan M
Using stretch work assignments to help engineers grow
Stretch work assignments are tasks or projects that are a bit beyond an engineer’s current skill or knowledge level and that allow them to improve and learn new things. When done correctly these assignments serve a dual purpose of providing learning opportunities for your engineers, while at the same time completing a project or task that will help your company.
