The Stack Overflow Podcast

Recorded at LDX3 by LeadDev, Ryan chats with Dan Moore, Senior Director of CIAM Strategy and Identity Standards at FusionAuth, about adapting established OAuth2 protocols for the agentic era, the security necessity of giving autonomous AI agents their own distinct identities, and how AI coding tools are shifting developers' focus toward solving core business problems.
Episode notes:
FusionAuth is an identity and access management platform that provides customer authentication, OAuth, and security solutions for developers.
This episode was recorded at LDX3. Listen to our other LDX3 conversation with engineering leaders Nivia Henry and Charity Majors.
Read Dan’s most recent piece on the Stack Overflow blog about authentication and authorization in MCP.
Connect with Dan at [email protected].
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Ryan is joined by Charity Majors, co-founder and CTO at Honeycomb, for a conversation about applying the concept of immutable infrastructure to software development to treat code like cattle instead of pets, shifting the paradigm of system specifications to accommodate the rapid influx of AI-generated code, and navigating the complex ethical boundaries between system observability and human surveillance in modern technology ecosystems.
Episode notes:
Honeycomb is an observability platform that empowers engineering teams to visualize, analyze, and understand the behavior of their complex cloud systems.
Connect with Charity on her blog at charity.wtf and read her team's posts on AI norms and values on the Honeycomb blog.
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Ryan sits down with James Gosling, creator of Java at Sun Microsystems, to talk about the early networking friction that drove the need for interconnectedness, the stringent reliability requirements of consumer electronics companies that inspired the Java virtual machine, and the evolution of garbage collectors that allow Java to handle large-scale concurrent memory management.
Episode notes:
Check out CultRepo’s recently released Java documentary to learn more about the early history of the language and the engineers who built it.
Connect with James on LinkedIn and X.
Congrats to Famous Question badge winner zainhassan for winning the badge on their answer to java.security.certpathvalidatorexception, trust anchor for certification path, not founded React Native.
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Recorded on the floor of LDX3, Ryan chats with Nivia Henry, an engineering leader most recently at Netflix, about the reality of the supposed SaaS apocalypse, the complex calculus of the modern build-versus-buy decision in the era of AI, and the critical importance of understanding system architectures to manage long-term infrastructure costs.
Episode notes:
This episode was recorded at this year’s LDX3 by LeadDev, a conference focused on modern engineering leadership, management, and technical strategy
Nivia recently spent two and a half years tackling complex data and engineering challenges at Netflix and previously spent eight years driving product innovation at Spotify.
Connect with Nivia on LinkedIn and on BlueSky.
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Recorded at OpenAI Dev Day 2026, Ryan sits down with Andrew Ambrosino, member of the technical staff at OpenAI, for a conversation on OpenAI's strategy for merging ChatGPT and Codex into a unified experience, the advantages of localized computer access in their successful desktop application, and the technical hurdles of constructing ChatGPT Spaces to support real-time multi-agent collaboration.
Episode notes:
ChatGPT Space is a newly launched collaborative workspace within ChatGPT and Codex that allows software engineering teams and their active AI agents to work together in real-time.
Connect with Andrew on X.
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