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Aug 23, 2024 • 26min

From PHP to JavaScript to Kubernetes: how backend engineering evolved

You can learn more about Geshan on his website or check him out on LinkedIn.Geshan also shared the slide decks for a few of his talks on serverless and containers.Congrats to Stack Overflow user Matthew Reed for earning a populist badge with his answer to the question: GitHub: How to do case sensitive search for the code in repository?
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Aug 20, 2024 • 27min

Ryan Dahl explains why Deno had to evolve with version 2.0

If you’ve never seen it, check out Ryan’s classic talk, 10 Things I Regret About Node.JS, which gives a great overview of the reasons he felt compelled to create Deno.You can learn more about Ryan on Wikipedia, his website, and his Github page.To learn more about Deno 2.0, listen to Ryan talk about it here and check out the project’s Github page here.Congrats to Hugo G, who earned a Great Answer Badge for his input on the following question: How can I declare and use Boolean variables in a shell script?
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Aug 16, 2024 • 31min

Battling ticket bots and untangling taxes at the frontiers of e-commerce

You can find Ilya on LinkedIn here.You can listen to Ilya talk about Commerce Components here, a system he describes as a "modern way to approach your commerce architecture without reducing it to a (false) binary choice between microservices and monoliths."As Ilya notes, “there are a lot of interesting implications for runtime and how we're solving it at Shopify. There is a direct bridge there to a performance conversation as well: moving untrusted scripts off the main thread, sandboxing UI extensions, and more.” No badge winner today. Instead, user Kaizen has a question about Shopify that still needs an answer. Maybe you can help! How to Activate Shopify Web Pixel Extension on Production Store?
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Aug 13, 2024 • 23min

Scaling systems to manage the data about the data

Coalesce is a solution to transform data at scale. You can find Satish on LinkedIn. We previously spoke to Satish for a Q&A on the blog: AI is only as good as the data: Q&A with Satish Jayanthi of CoalesceWe previously covered metadata on the blog: Metadata, not data, is what drags your database downCongrats to Lifeboat winner nwinkler for saving this question with a great answer: Docker run hello-world not working 
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Aug 9, 2024 • 28min

How we’re making Stack Overflow more accessible

Read Dan’s blog post about the process of making Stack Overflow more accessible.We followed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), with a few exceptions. For example, we chose to measure color contrast using the Accessible Perceptual Contrast Algorithm (APCA). We quantified the accessibility of our products using the Axe accessibility testing engine.Our accessibility dashboard helps our internal teams and the community track the accessibility of our products: Stacks (our design system), the public platform (Stack Overflow and all Stack Exchange sites), and Stack Overflow for Teams (including Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise products). We also implemented robust accessibility testing and made those rules open-source in a comprehensive package you can find here.Shoutout to user Beejor for an excellent answer to the question What is the largest safe UDP packet size on the internet?.
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Aug 6, 2024 • 24min

Unpacking the 2024 Developer Survey results

Read the blog post or dive into the results of our 2024 Developer Survey.A few highlights to get you started: most popular technologies,most admired and desired programming languages,feelings about/use of AI coding tools, andwhat we know about the global developer community.Speaking of our developer community, Stack Overflow user Frank earned a Stellar Question badge by wondering How to use C++ in Go.
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Aug 2, 2024 • 28min

How developer experience can escape the spreadsheet

Cortex is an internal developer portal that cuts noise and helps devs build and continuously improve software. Explore their docs or see what’s happening on their blog.Cortex is also hiring, so if you’re an engineer who wants to work on these kinds of problems, check out their careers page.Connect with Anish on LinkedIn or X.Ganesh is also on LinkedIn and X.Shoutout to Alex Chesters, who earned a Great Question badge with How to count occurrences of an element in a Swift array?. 
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Jul 30, 2024 • 22min

How Stack Overflow fends off scraping bots

As Josh explains, DDoS attacks aim to take down a website, while bot scrapers try to gather as much data as possible without getting caught.Josh Zhang is a staff site reliability engineer (SRE) at Stack Overflow. Connect with him on LinkedIn.ICYMI: In 2022, Josh wrote an article for our blog about how Stack defends itself against DDoS attacks.Stack Overflow user Serge Ballesta won a Lifeboat badge for answering What does |= mean in c++.
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Jul 26, 2024 • 20min

On the web, data doesn’t define us. It creates us.

Jannis Kallinikos is a coauthor of Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy (MIT Press, 2024) with Cristina Alaimo, which lays out a framework for a new social science focused on the socioeconomic changes driven by data. You can read an excerpt from Data Rules on our blog here.Explore more of Dr. Kallinikos’s work.Shoutout to Lifeboat badge winner Ebrahim Ghasemi for answering What is the structure of an application protocol data unit (APDU) command and response?
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Jul 23, 2024 • 25min

The problem with the tech debt mindset

Chelsea Troy defines technical debt and maintenance load in her blog post, “Stop saying ‘technical debt.’”Learn more about technical bankruptcy in this blog post, “Monitoring debt builds up faster than software teams can pay it off.”Joel Spolsky’s classic blog post on avoiding rewriting code from scratch – Things you should never do, part I.Technical debt as explained by Ward Cunningham, who coined the term.Code as an asset, a conversation from Hacker News.Middleware is the “software glue” that provides services to applications beyond those available from the operating system. Ratpack framework is a toolkit for creating high performance web applications.React is a front end javascript library.jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML.Questions about functional programming.User shout out! Nikoksr received the lifeboat badge after answering a question related to math.pow.

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