The Stack Overflow Podcast

The Stack Overflow Podcast
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Aug 22, 2023 • 27min

Medical research made understandable with AI

AI is being used to make medical research more understandable and accessible, with the potential to make dense medical papers up to 700x more readable. Medical Affairs Teams in pharmaceutical companies struggle to keep up with the thousands of new articles and research papers published each month. Sorcero is using a mix of AI technologies to ingest and comprehend the vast amount of medical data. The podcast also discusses the importance of attribution in Stack Overflow and how AI is impacting medical research by accelerating medication advancement.
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Aug 18, 2023 • 30min

Semantic search without the napalm grandma exploit

Last month, we announced the launch of OverflowAI from the stage of WeAreDevelopers. To learn more about AI-driven products and features in the works, check out Stack Overflow Labs. Among the projects Alex works on is a semantic search API and the new search experience on Stack Overflow for Teams.LLMs can be vulnerable to jailbreak attacks like the napalm grandma exploit.Kyle is on GitHub, Linked, and text-based social media.Michael is on LinkedIn.Alex is on LinkedIn.Shoutout to Lifeboat badge winner Pushpendra, who scooped Error: Invalid postback or callback argument from a churning ocean of ignorance. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Aug 16, 2023 • 27min

Making event-driven development predictable with Discover

Discover engineers discuss the technologies they use at Discover, such as Spark, HBase, microservices, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, and Kafka. They explore event-driven architecture and its benefits, and discuss the challenges of scaling event-driven development. They also highlight the importance of chaos testing in event-driven development to uncover operational and monitoring issues.
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Aug 15, 2023 • 25min

Want better answers from your data? Ask better questions

The mission of Night Shift Development is to democratize data analytics to help organizations and users of all skill levels understand their data. Their flagship product, ClearQuery, is a data intelligence and analytics platform designed for nontechnical users. ClearQuery has a free version that lets you try out the full array of features. Learn how it works and register here to get started, gratis.Learn how Stack Overflow implemented semantic search to allow users to search using natural language.Read about why self-healing code is the future of software development.Tim is on LinkedIn. Thanks and congrats to Lifeboat badge winner Boann, whose answer to Sort four numbers without an array has been viewed 23,000 times and counting.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Aug 11, 2023 • 27min

Why everyone should be an AppSec specialist

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Aug 8, 2023 • 25min

Understanding SRE

Vlad is Head of Research and Development at Siemens Healthineers, the healthcare arm of tech conglomerate Siemens. He wrote about SRE on our blog here.His book, Establishing SRE Foundations: A Step-by-Step Guide to Introducing Site Reliability Engineering in Software Delivery Organizations, is available now. Site reliability engineering (SRE) applies a software engineering approach to IT operations and infrastructure, with the goal of building scalable, reliable systems capable of handling constant updates from dev teams. SRE is closely related to DevOps.ICYMI, we talked with Chef cofounder Adam Jacob about how he’s creating a new-and-improved approach to infrastructure automation. Listen to that conversation here.Connect with Vlad on LinkedIn, where you can also read snippets of his book on SRE.Lifeboat badge winner Abbas Galiyakotwala’s answer to How do I split a comma-separated string? filled a void of ignorance with a little extra knowledge.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Aug 4, 2023 • 23min

The fine line between product and engineering

Twilio is a customer engagement platform whose communication APIs for voice, text, chat, email, and video are used by millions of developers. See what’s happening on their blog, dig into their docs, or check out their Stack Overflow Collective.This summer, Twilio announced CustomerAI, which applies the power of LLMs to the rich troves of customer data that flows through Twilio’s platform. Learn more here.ICYMI: From the stage of WeAreDevelopers, Stack Overflow announced a roadmap for integrating GenAI into our public platform and paid offerings. Check out Stack Overflow Labs to see what we’re working on.Also ICYMI: Listen to our conversation with Jody about his path from physics to sales to programming and what drew him to working at Stack Overflow.Register for SIGNAL 2023, Twilio’s customer and developer conference, happening virtually and for free on August 23, 2023. Attendees can expect a deep dive into AI and how it’s revolutionizing customer experience technology.Connect with Kathryn on LinkedIn or the social network formerly known as Twitter.Connect with Jody on LinkedIn. Three cheers for Lifeboat badge winner blackgreen, who swooped in to save How can I write a generic function that accepts any numerical type? from the howling void of ignorance.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Aug 2, 2023 • 33min

How engineering teams at a large org can move at startup speed

Find out why others have joined Shell. If you want to experience being a developer at one of the world’s largest energy companies, they’re hiring.Amber Webb is on LinkedIn.Naresh Kumar is on LinkedIn.Congrats to Tomasz Kula, today’s Lifeboat badge winner, for dropping some knowledge on Multiple components binding with the same reactive form control update issue and saving it from ruin. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Aug 1, 2023 • 30min

From startup to Google and back again

Sean hosts Partially Redacted, a podcast about data privacy, security, and compliance.He also hosts the podcast Software Engineering Daily, which features technical interviews on everything from the ethics of GPTs to cloud-native search and WebAssembly. Start with the recent episode Surviving ChatGPT with Christian Hubicki (of Survivor fame).You can also read about how he crowdsourced a behavioral model for Survivor.Sean spent four years working in developer relations (DevRel) at Google. Here’s a Software Engineering Daily episode about the role DevRel plays at Google.Connect with Sean on LinkedIn or Twitter (I mean, X), or check out his website.Kudos to Great Question badge winner Kai Sellgren for asking How to remove an element from a vector given the element?.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Jul 28, 2023 • 23min

Behind the scenes with the folks building OverflowAI

You can learn more about OverflowAI and sign up to be an alpha tester here.You can check out Ellen and Jody on Linkedin. Congrats to Ben Lindsay, who was awarded a Lifeboat badge for his answer to: How can I divide each element in a tuple by a single integer?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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