Skills, not schools, are in demand among developers
The pathway to a software developer job has shifted over the years. It used to be that you had to go through a college computer science program before you could get a developer job. But as online educ...
16 Dec 202126min
An oral history of Stack Overflow - told by its founding team
Find Joel Spolsky on Twitter here.Jeff Atwood is on Twitter here.Geoff Dalgas is on Twitter here.Follow Jarrod Dixon on Twitter here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priv...
14 Dec 202127min
Zero to MVP without provisioning a database
PlanetScale is built on Vitess, the open-source database clustering system that runs at colossal scale hosting YouTube, Slack, and GitHub.A familiar theme: Big cloud companies aren’t set up for indepe...
10 Dec 202122min
Feeling insecure about your code's security?
This “Trojan source” bug (get it?) could threaten the security of all code.In its annual report on its user community, GitHub found that developers appreciate automation, reusing code, and remote work...
7 Dec 202116min
Is crypto the key to a democratizing the metaverse?
Ethan's book, Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West, is available now.The metaverse isn’t just inevitable; it’s already here (and it has a booming real estate marke...
3 Dec 202125min
Does modern parenting have to rely on spyware?
The conversation was inspired by Epic's decision to make it's Kid's Web Service's parent verification free to all developers.Ben has been grappling with these questions since 2013, when he wrote about...
30 Nov 202119min
Who is building clouds for the independent developer?
We kick things off by weighing the merits of two gender-neutral regional pronouns: the familiar y’all and the under appreciated yinz. Now that’s covered...The global population of developers will hit ...
23 Nov 202124min
Who owns this outage? Building intelligent, automated escalation chains
Maxwell, a solution architect at xMatters, took a winding road to get to where he is. After a computer engineering education, he held jobs as field support engineer, product manager, SRE, and finally ...
22 Nov 202122min
