The Best of Stack Overflow
10+ most popular Stack Overflow articles, as voted by our community.
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Minimizing the downsides of dynamic programming
Dynamic languages allow for a lot of flexibility in typing — sometimes too much. Here's how to add some guardrails to your code.
Stack Overflow on Cybersecurity
Continuous delivery, meet continuous security
Dynamic application security testing (DAST) can help catch security flaws in your code. And it can do it automatically in your build process.
Stack Overflow on Golang
Einstein Analytics and Go
It’s rare that we get a chance to directly compare two technologies against each other for the same task. But sometimes the stars align, either because you start experiencing negative effects from…
Stack Overflow on Machine Learning
Getting your data in shape for machine learning
Machine learning uses data structures that don't always resemble the ones used in standard computing. You'll need to process your data first if you want efficient machine learning.
Stack Overflow on Programming
How to Make Good Code Reviews Better
I have been doing day-to-day code reviews for over a decade now. The benefits of code reviews are plenty: someone spot checks your work for errors, they get to learn from your solution, and the…
Why the number input is the worst input
Think that web form has got your number? If you used input type="number", you may be surprised to find that it doesn't.
Stack Overflow on Python
The Incredible Growth of Python
We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world. Among the largest differences we…
Stack Overflow on Rustlang
What is Rust and why is it so popular?
Rust has been Stack Overflow's most loved language for four years in a row, indicating that many of those who have had the opportunity to use Rust have fallen in love with it. However, the roughly 97%…
Stack Overflow on Software Engineering
When to use gRPC vs GraphQL
We dig into two of the most popular API protocols to see where they work best.
How Intuit improves security, latency, and development velocity with a service mesh
Find out about all the features the mesh adds to a service architecture automatically.
Stack Overflow on Unit Testing
How Stack Overflow is leveling up its unit testing game
We neglected unit tests for a long time because our code base made them difficult. But now we're putting in the work to change that.
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The state of software development is...
How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know.
April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we…
«the higher a user’s reputation, the less often they are copying.»
Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
It takes the most exquisite measurements you can imagine, recording the changes in current associated with different bits of DNA.
A look under the hood: how branches work in Git
Git branches! They allow you to keep different versions of your code cleanly separated. Here's a look at how they work and why you should know about them.
Why the number input is the worst input
Think that web form has got your number? If you used input type="number", you may be surprised to find that it doesn't.
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