Moving up a level of abstraction with serverless on MongoDB Atlas and AWS
The history of computing has been a story of moving up levels of abstraction: from hard-coding algorithms and directly manipulating memory addresses with assembly languages to using more natural langu...
22 Maalis 202326min
What our engineers learned building Stack Overflow
The inbox improvements were Radek’s graduation project. Not bad for a newbie. Not everyone likes change, and the inbox change was no exception. So we looked into fixing that.Read about what our engine...
21 Maalis 202321min
Let’s talk large language models
Our recent Pulse Survey showed how technologists visiting Stack Overflow feel about emergent technologies. The consensus is clear: AI assistants will soon be everywhere, and developers aren’t sure how...
17 Maalis 202324min
Visible APIs get reused, not reinvented
With so many companies offering API products, it can be hard to get your particular APIs discovered and used by the developers who need them most. You might have the best, most useful solutions out th...
15 Maalis 202327min
Developers believe AI will soon be everywhere, but aren't sure how to feel about it
You can dive deeper into the research, including some lovely matrix charts, on our blog.Erin has also explored tag trends among our most loved languages and job insights from our community.Learn more ...
14 Maalis 202320min
Quiet quitting and loud layoffs
Per one count, more than 280,000 people were laid off from tech jobs in 2022 and the first two months of 2023.What do layoffs have in common with farting at a party? Both are a bad look if you’re the ...
10 Maalis 202328min
From writing code to teaching code
Writing code that runs without errors—and without all the bugs that only show up when the program runs—is hard enough. But teaching others to write code and understand the underlying concepts takes a ...
8 Maalis 202322min
“Move fast and break things” doesn’t apply to other people’s savings
Flourish is a fintech platform for registered investment advisers (RIAs) that was recently acquired by MassMutual.After studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon, Christine spent almost 12 years at...
7 Maalis 202319min
