We hate Scrum and Agile too...when it's done wrong
About three years ago, when our public platform engineering team at Stack started growing, we realized that we needed a more robust formal project management system that could scale with all the creat...
23 Sep 202222min
Five nines uptime without developer burnout
Like other folks we’ve talked to on the podcast, Chronosphere was born out of work pioneered at Uber. When you can’t find solutions to help you scale, sometimes you have to build them. Everything in C...
22 Sep 202227min
Can integrating hardware with software save developers time and energy?
We dive into some of the ways developers can customize their keyboard with shortcuts, macros, and apps to eliminate repetitive tasks and automate the busywork that stands in the way of bigger, breakth...
21 Sep 202220min
A serial entrepreneur finally embraces open source
Appsmith is an open-source, low-code platform for building and maintaining internal tools like custom dashboards, admin panels, and, of course, CRUD apps.Watch Arpin’s talk on how a low-cost, low-tech...
20 Sep 202220min
Hypergrowth headaches
Like a lot of good tools, Backstage started as a way to stop using a spreadsheet. They knew it was something worth open-sourcing when conference attendees paid more attention to the tool than the topi...
16 Sep 202228min
What science says about achieving the flow state
Show notesIf you’re interested in diving deeper into Professor Fritz’s research on developer flow states, check out his list of publications. Flow states can be affected by things as simple as the rig...
14 Sep 202227min
Hackathons and free pizza: All about Stack Overflow’s new Student Ambassador Program
As part of an effort to work with students at college and universities, Stack Overflow is partnering with Major League Hacking (MLH) to recruit our first cohort of Student Ambassadors. These folks wil...
13 Sep 202222min
Plug-and-play AI for your own projects
AssemblyAI is an AI-as-a-service provider focused on speech-to-text and text analysis. Their mission is to make it easy for developers and product teams to incorporate state-of-the-art AI technology i...
9 Sep 202227min
