This chapter explores Stack Overflow's modernization efforts through the integration of the Svelte framework. The speakers discuss the motivations for this technological shift and its implications for the platform's user interface.
Stack Overflow is a legendary question-and-answer site for programmers, and is likely well known to most SEDaily listeners.
Svelte is an open-source front-end framework that was released in 2016 and continues to grow rapidly in popularity.
Giamir Buoncristiani is a Staff Software Engineer at Stack Overflow. He is also the tech lead for the Stacks design system. Giamir joins the podcast to talk about modernizing Stack Overflow’s front-end user interface and why the team has embraced Svelte.
Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.