An intuitive introduction to text embeddings
Text embeddings are key to LLMs and convert text into vector coordinates.
He helped create Jira. Now he’s searching for meaningful engineering metrics
Dylan Etkin, founder and CEO of Sleuth, joins Ryan to talk all things engineering efficiency, DORA metrics, continuous delivery, and how his psychology degree has proven useful in his work as an engineering manager and startup founder.
The product approach to open source communities
A business wouldn’t take its product development for granted, so why would you neglect the OSS community that’s fundamental to the project’s very existence?
Tomasz Tunguz: From Java engineer to investor in eight unicorns
Ben talks with venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz about his path from Java engineer to Google product manager and finally to author and investor. They cover why lower data storage costs and improved database performance are driving a new wave of innovation, how LLMs learn by doing, and how companies (and investors) should respond to uncertain economic conditions.
AI is only as good as the data: Q&A with Satish Jayanthi of Coalesce
AI is garbage in, garbage out, so feed it good data.
November 2023 Update: What’s new in Collectives™ on Stack Overflow?
Check out some of the new features and updates we’ve recently added on collectives.
Why Stack Overflow is embracing Svelte
Giamir Buoncristiani, tech lead for the Stacks design system at Stack Overflow, joins Ryan for a conversation about all things front end, including how he joined Stack with a mandate to modernize the front-end user interface and why Stack Overflow developers are such big fans of Svelte.
Edge and beyond: How to meet the increasing demand for memory
The opportunities for edge computing are huge—but so are the memory requirements.
Zero trust with zero problems
The home team chats with Alex Bovee, cofounder and CEO of identity access management company ConductorOne, about balancing security and productivity in developer workflows, why tech companies have shifted everything left, and the logic behind zero trust.
Hopping instead of hustling: Survey tells us how developers are taking care of business
Both new tech talent and late-career developers are both more likely to be looking.