Ben Popper

Hudson Valley

Senior Director of Content at The Stack Overflow Podcast

Director of Content at @Stackoverflow. Formerly business editor @verge and communications at @djiglobal. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu player. Brooklyn native.

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Why do developers love clean code but hate writing documentation?

Dec 31, 2024 | stackoverflow.blog | Ben Popper

[Ed. note: While we take some time to rest up over the holidays and prepare for next year, we are re-publishing our top ten posts for the year.
Life in the Fastlane: SDK tools built with developers in mind

Oct 30, 2024 | stackoverflow.blog | Ben Popper

October 30, 2024Life in the Fastlane: SDK tools built with developers in mind On this sponsored episode, Ben and Ryan talk to Sunny Patel, Staff Software Engineer at PayPal, and Kyle Prinsloo, a developer and a PayPal partner, about all the ways that Fastlane by PayPal makes developers’ lives easier.
Meet the AI native developers who build software through prompt engineering

Oct 4, 2024 | stackoverflow.blog | Ben Popper

October 4, 2024Meet the AI native developers who build software through prompt engineering On today’s episode we chat with Crystal Xu, chief of staff at FSH Tech. She explains how she learned to build and deploy apps and services inside her company using Python and Java, without ever getting a traditional computer science education or training to write code. Instead, Xu works with GenAI systems like ChatGPT, Cursor, and Replit to build software through prompt engineering.
A developer works to balance the data center boom with his climate change battle

Sep 30, 2024 | stackoverflow.blog | Ben Popper

October 1, 2024A developer works to balance the data center boom with his climate change battleOn today’s episode we chat with David Mytton, CEO of Arcjet and co-founder of Console.dev. We discuss his early work in cloud monitoring, his passion for the environment, and his love for sharing great developer tools.
Deedy Das: from coding at Meta, to search at Google, to investing with Anthropic

Sep 26, 2024 | stackoverflow.blog | Ben Popper

September 27, 2024Deedy Das: from coding at Meta, to search at Google, to investing with AnthropicWe chat with Deedy Das, a Principal at Menlo Ventures, who began his career as a software engineer at Facebook and Google. He then dipped a toe in the startup world, spending time at the company now know as Glean. More recently he started a career as a venture capitalist, investing in AI and Infra out of the Anthology Fund, a partnership between Menlo Ventures and Anthropic.
One of the best ways to get value for AI coding tools: generating tests

Sep 10, 2024 | stackoverflow.blog | Ben Popper

In our 2024 Developer Survey, lots of coders highlighted the fact that they were using AI-powered tools in their workflows. While generating code is the most common use case today, many saw testing and documentation as the big areas where they will utilize AI in the year to come. We wanted to explore this result in more depth. Why do programmers think AI will become useful for testing specifically?
The evolution of full stack engineers

Sep 9, 2024 | stackoverflow.blog | Ben Popper

September 10, 2024The evolution of full stack engineersOn today’s episode we chat with Mrinalini Sugosh, Developer Relations and Community Manager at CKEditor and TinyMCE. She discusses how modern full stack developers have to master both front and backend skills, stitch the two together, and master adjacent skills like data analysis and security compliance.
At scale, anything that could fail definitely will

Sep 2, 2024 | stackoverflow.blog | Ben Popper

Pradeep talks about building at global scale and preparing for inevitable system failures. He talks about extra layers of security, including viewing your own VMs as untrustworthy. And he lays out where he thinks the world of cloud computing is headed as GenAI becomes a bigger piece of many company’s tech stack. You can find Pradeep on LinkedIn. He also writes a blog and hosts a podcast over at Oracle First Principles.
Mobile Observability: monitoring performance through cracked screens, old batteries, and crappy Wi-Fi

Aug 29, 2024 | stackoverflow.blog | Ben Popper

You can learn more about Austin on LinkedIn and check out a blog he wrote on building the SDK for Open Telemetry here. You can find Austin at the CNCF Slack community, in the OTel SIG channel, or the client-side SIG channels. The calendar is public on opentelemetry.io. Embrace has its own Slack community to talk all things Embrace or all things mobile observability. You can join that by going to embrace.io as well.
Where does Postgres fit in a world of GenAI and vector databases?

Aug 26, 2024 | stackoverflow.blog | Ben Popper

For the last two years, Postgres has been the most popular database among respondents to our Annual Developer Survey. Timescale is a startup working on an open-source PostgreSQEL stack for AI applications. You can follow the company on X and check out their work on GitHub. You can learn more about Avthar on his website and on LinkedIn.Congrats to Stack Overflow user Haymaker for earning a Great Question badge. They asked: How Can I Override the Default SQLConnection Timeout?