Stack Overflow CEO reveals major trends dominating development

Cloud has long ruled the roost, but developers are fickle

Tom Allen
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Chandrasekar says opinions around blockchain are "very polarised"
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Chandrasekar says opinions around blockchain are "very polarised"

Seventy per cent of developers learn a new technology every year, emphasising the scale and speed of tech evolution. And there’s one particular technology that has dominated developer Q&A website Stack Overflow in recent years.

Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar - himself a developer who used the site professionally before taking the leadership role in 2019 - sums up the site's top three topics as "cloud consumptio...

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