The Stack Overflow Podcast

Instabug [https://www.instabug.com/] helps developers monitor, prioritize, and debug performance and stability issues throughout the mobile app development lifecycle. Get started with their docs [https://docs.instabug.com/]. Connect with Kenny on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kencjohnston/].  Stack Overflow user itoctopus [https://stackoverflow.com/users/916491/itoctopus] earned a Populist badge [https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/62/populist] by explaining how to Break huge URLs so they don't overflow [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7309115/break-huge-urls-so-they-dont-overflow]. Some great excerpts from today’s episode:  On why they built a lean, mean SDK: “Nowadays mobile developers spend a lot of time thinking about SDK bloat and how much they're taxing their app’s performance just from the SDKs they’re including. We spent a lot of time and a lot of effort making sure that our SDK has very minimal performance impact. You can't do this without any performance impact, but making sure that it has really minimal performance impact as an SDK itself. A lot of that has to do with the way in which, from years of experience, we capture the information and offload certain information to storage for when we have network connectivity bandwidth later so that we're not constantly eating network.” On the future of self-fixing code and mobile app development: “Our belief is that the place where we're going to see this kind of auto fixing of code, auto healing of code, it's probably going to be mobile first. So we're invested heavily in seeing that reality. You can think of it as straightforward as crashes, for example. There's a known set of crash error codes. And so there's a known set of crash behaviors. So it's pretty easy for us. And that was what our smart resolve 1.0 was to get to, Hey, this is generally how you should solve these types of crashes. Our 1.0 version is not giving you code suggestions, but it's at least giving you known best practices from places like Stack Overflow and others that have content about how to solve these types of problems.” On using AI models to spot UI issues: “We think that there are a lot less deterministic ways to spot a frustration signal. So the thing we're working on is, on device models for your users’ behavior that will allow our SDK to capture a frustration signal that nobody else has. Maybe today when I opened my banking app, I usually look at page one and then do a transfer, check out my balance, and now I'm doing this weird swiping behavior because something's not working well. A model could spot that. It wouldn't be reported as a bug, but a model could spot that.”

Tabnine [https://www.tabnine.com/] is an AI code assistant that offers AI tools for code generation, testing, and code review. Eran was previously a researcher at IBM, where he worked on IBM Watson [https://www.ibm.com/watson].  Connect with Eran on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/eranyahav/?originalSubdomain=il]. Stack Overflow user Anders [https://stackoverflow.com/users/3501/anders] earned a Populist badge [https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/62/populist] with their first-class answer to How to detect the current screen resolution? [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4631292/how-to-detect-the-current-screen-resolution].

Fabrizio is now the lead documentation engineer Tinybird [https://www.tinybird.co/], a data platform for user-facing analytics. Get started with their docs [https://www.tinybird.co/docs] or explore their blog [https://www.tinybird.co/blog]. Find Fabrizio’s blog here [https://passo.uno/]. Some reading suggestions: * What docs as code really means [https://passo.uno/what-docs-as-code-means/] * How I'm using AI as a technical writer [https://passo.uno/ai-tech-writer-examples/] * Why I became a Documentation Engineer (and what that even means) [https://passo.uno/what-is-a-documentation-engineer/] Find Fabrizio on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabrizioferri/?originalSubdomain=es] or GitHub [https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabrizioferri/?originalSubdomain=es].

Sukhi is a senior product manager for Permission Slip [https://permissionslipcr.com/] by Consumer Reports, an app to help people exercise their digital data privacy rights. Consumer Reports [https://www.consumerreports.org/] is a nonprofit organization with a long history of protecting consumers’ rights and advocating for changes that make them safer. Connect with Sukhi on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sukhigulati/] or via her website [https://sukhigulati.com/].  Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Martijn Pieters [https://stackoverflow.com/users/100297/martijn-pieters], who’s earned over a million reputation by delivering wisdom to questions like Runtime of python's if substring in string [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35220418/runtime-of-pythons-if-substring-in-string].

Hello everyone and welcome to the very first episode of We'll Be in Touch, a new podcast series from Stack Overflow.  This show will explore the world of job interviews, career development, and software engineering. Each episode, we'll sit down with folks working in software development to hear their stories, dive into their latest projects, learn about tricky bugs they've tackled, and discuss the tricks they use to keep up with all the latest languages and frameworks. Your host, Kyle Mitofsky, is a Staff Software Engineer here at Stack Overflow. With over a decade of experience as an independent contributor, manager, and team leader, he's interviewed a wide range of people and is excited to be able to share these revealing and engaging conversations, WITHOUT the pressure of an actual job interview. Whether you're an aspiring developer or a seasoned professional, join us as we delve into meaningful discussions that can help shape your career. We're kicking off the series by chatting with a former colleague of Kyle's, Yaakov Ellis, a long time Stack Overflow community member and employee who currently  holds a role as a Staff Engineer at Intuit.