Tech Talent: Developing Our Future | Joel Spolsky, Founder of Stack Overflow

Code in SocietyThe Developer Age

The Life of aDeveloper

Code is literal…people aren’t

How do developers deal with this?

Writing the script for the future

Surrounded by Code

The influenceof small decisions

DEVELOPERS IN YOUR LIFE

Shaping our future

45 Million Monthly Visitors to Stack Overflow

6 Minutes7 VisitsPer User, Each Month Average Time Per Visit

By The Numbers

11,096,637Questions

156,482,858

18,065,986Answers

Votes, Edits, Comments

By The Numbers

7,522,902,979times a developer found a solution on Stack Overflow

Who Is On Stack Overflow?The Global Pool of 16M Professional Developers

10,793,000Full Stack Developers

474,600ML & Data Scientists

1,634,000DevOps & Network Engineers

1,498,000Database Administrations

1,206,000Mobile Developers

984,000Embedded Systems Engineers

Every Professional Programmer Around The World

500,000 to 3,869,095240,000 to 499,999100,000 to 239,99930,000 to 99,9995,000 to 29,9990 to 4,999

Map of Developers Viewing Stack OverflowDots represent 1/3 of actual hits