How to improve the developer experience in today’s ecommerce world
We walk through the process of designing an SDK that makes it easy for developers to integrate new technology into their e-commerce stack and is flexible enough to serve the needs of small businesses and large enterprises.
Read moreEnterprise 2024.7: Empower your subject matter experts to contribute
This release introduces Subject Matter Expert (SME) Auto-Assign to the Stack Overflow for Teams experience so expert knowledge is automatically captured, verified, and distributed to users.
Read morePioneering work is ugly
“A mathematician’s reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given. (Pioneer work is clumsy.)” — A. S. Besicovitch I’m sure I’ve written about this quote somewhere, but I can’t find where. The quote comes from A Mathematician’s Miscellany by J. E. Littlewood, citing Besicovitch. I’ve more often
Read moreHow to streamline and improve your tech hiring process
It’s a complicated time to be hiring software engineers. In some industries, tech hiring hasn’t fully recovered from its 2022 slump. In others—like AI—demand for specialized technical talent is surging. In fact, 63 percent of senior executives are concerned about the shortage of qualified engineering talent. The result for your
Read moreCEO Update: Building trust in AI is key to a thriving knowledge ecosystem
The internet and its business models are changing. Stack Overflow has been at the forefront, helping to shape the future of the web.
Read moreThe new pair programming: an AI agent that cleans your code as you write
Ben welcomes Sonar CEO Tariq Shaukat for a conversation about AI coding tools’ potential to boost developer productivity—and how to balance those potential gains against code quality and security concerns. They talk about Sonar’s origins as an open-source code quality tool, the excellent reasons to embrace a “clean as you
Read moreNew Mersenne prime found
Mersenne numbers have the form 2p − 1. A Mersenne prime is a Mersenne number that is also a prime. A new Mersenne prime discovery was announced today: 2p − 1 is prime for p = 2136279841. The size of the new Mersenne prime is consistent with what was predicted.
Read moreChris’ Corner: If This Then Splat
I love the little typographic thing where if you’re reading a block of text that is in italics, that when an italic word is needed within that, it is unitalicized (like that). I’ve seen that expressed in CSS like: em em { font-style: normal; } That’s probably smart to have,
Read moreChannel capacity of a telegraph
Claude Shannon’s famous paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication [1] includes an example saying that the channel capacity of a telegraph is log2 W where W is the largest real root of the determinant equation Where in the world did that come from? I’ll sketch where the equation above came
Read moreHow API security is evolving for the GenAI era
Ben Popper chats with Keith Babo, Head of Product at Solo.io, about how the API security landscape is changing in the era of GenAI. They talk through the role of governance in AI, the importance of data protection, and the role API gateways play in enhancing security and functionality. Keith
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