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strings: the Sourcegraph blog

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    Sourcegraph 3.41 release

    June 21, 2022

    Sourcegraph 3.41 introduces running batch changes server-side, file mounting for the batch change container, greater pattern tracking in Code Insights, and admin settings to restrict extensions to those authored by Sourcegraph.

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    Sourcegraph 3.41 release

    “Shift left”—wtf does it mean?

    Beyang Liu

    June 17, 2022

    Everyone's telling us to "shift left" these days, but what does that actually mean? What's being shifted? Who's doing the shifting? How far left should we shift it?

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    “Shift left”—wtf does it mean?

    scip-typescript: a new TypeScript and JavaScript indexer

    Ólafur Páll Geirsson

    June 8, 2022

    We are excited to announce the release of scip-typescript, a new indexer that allows you to navigate TypeScript and JavaScript codebases on Sourcegraph with compiler-accurate precision.

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    scip-typescript: a new TypeScript and JavaScript indexer

    SCIP - a better code indexing format than LSIF

    Ólafur Páll Geirsson

    June 8, 2022

    We are excited to announce SCIP, a new indexing format that we are using at Sourcegraph to index programming languages to power code navigation features such as "Go to definition" and "Find references."

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    SCIP - a better code indexing format than LSIF

    No Secrets! Quickly find sensitive files in your GitHub repo

    Justin Dorfman

    May 25, 2022

    One thing white hats and black hats alike often do is search Git repositories for secrets that have been accidentally committed. So we created a bookmarklet that can reveal what secrets might be lurking in any given GitHub repository.

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    No Secrets! Quickly find sensitive files in your GitHub repo

    Sourcegraph 3.40 release

    May 24, 2022

    Sourcegraph 3.40 introduces dependencies search for Python, faster local navigation for several languages, Batch Changes for Bitbucket Cloud, and direct sharing for Code Insights visualizations.

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    Sourcegraph 3.40 release

    A dev's thoughts on developer productivity

    Beyang Liu

    May 10, 2022

    Developers are systems thinkers and yet, most measures of developer productivity are metrics-based, instead of systems-based. In this post, Sourcegraph co-founder and CTO Beyang Liu presents five charts that visualize what really matters for developer productivity.

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    A dev's thoughts on developer productivity

    5 key elements of successful monolith-to-microservices migrations

    Beyang Liu

    April 28, 2022

    At Sourcegraph, we've helped enable some of the best engineering organizations in the world to perform major architectural migrations. In this post, we present five lessons, five elements of a successful monolith to microservices migration.

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    5 key elements of successful monolith-to-microservices migrations

    How we used Notebooks to make our CI more accessible and understandable

    Robert Lin

    April 28, 2022

    The Sourcegraph CI is complex and customized. To make it more accessible, software engineer Robert Lin used the new Sourcegraph feature, Notebooks, to make living documentation.

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    How we used Notebooks to make our CI more accessible and understandable

    Please save git.io: GitHub's link shortener is being shut down in 3 days

    Stephen Gutekanst

    April 26, 2022

    Yesterday, GitHub announced that it intends to shut down git.io, its link-shortener service, in just 3 days time. Please help us save git.io and the hundreds of thousands of links that will be broken!

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    Please save git.io: GitHub's link shortener is being shut down in 3 days

    Interact with Sourcegraph from the command line faster with Fig

    Justin Dorfman

    April 21, 2022

    Sourcegraph teamed up with Fig to enhance 'src' the CLI that allows you to search code and more from your terminal.

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    Interact with Sourcegraph from the command line faster with Fig

    Sourcegraph 3.39 release

    April 21, 2022

    Sourcegraph 3.39 introduces Notebooks, Code Insights on native PostgreSQL, faster Code Intelligence for Java, and dependencies search for Go.

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    Sourcegraph 3.39 release

    Sourcegraph 3.38 release

    March 21, 2022

    Sourcegraph 3.38 introduces improved Notebooks, faster Code Intelligence for large repositories, dependencies search, and custom file syntax highlighting.

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    Sourcegraph 3.38 release

    The real weakest link in software supply chain security (it’s not open source)

    Rebecca Dodd, André Eleuterio

    March 21, 2022

    When a critical security vulnerability is identified, your response time is everything. There are probably shortcomings in your response process itself that are slowing you down—find out where they are and how you can be better prepared for the next third-party vulnerability.

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    The real weakest link in software supply chain security (it’s not open source)

    Announcing Code Insights: analytics for engineering teams to understand and visualize their codebase over time

    Quinn Slack

    March 10, 2022

    Devs, engineering managers, and leadership across all companies and industries are looking for a better understanding of their codebase. Code Insights allows you to create insights for anything you can search for in seconds.

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    Announcing Code Insights: analytics for engineering teams to understand and visualize their codebase over time

    How we migrated entirely to CSS Modules using codemods and Sourcegraph Code Insights

    Valery Bugakov

    March 10, 2022

    How our Frontend Platform team used codemods to automate a challenging global migration to CSS modules, and Code Insights to track and communicate progress.

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    How we migrated entirely to CSS Modules using codemods and Sourcegraph Code Insights

    8 ways to implement better onboarding

    Beyang Liu, Patricia No

    March 9, 2022

    Engineering leaders and engineers share their most effective approaches to help new hires onboard faster and build confidence.

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    8 ways to implement better onboarding

    Sourcegraph 3.37 release

    February 22, 2022

    Sourcegraph 3.37 introduces Code Insights, performance improvements for Code Intelligence, sharing for Notebooks, and a new UI for creating search contexts.

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    Sourcegraph 3.37 release

    Broken database migrations: How we finally fixed an embarrassing problem

    Eric Fritz

    February 22, 2022

    Upgrades of Sourcegraph instances would often fail with a dreaded "dirty database" error, leaving the the instance in a broken state that required manual intervention to resolve. Here's how we identified and solved a huge source of pain during upgrades for administrators.

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    Broken database migrations: How we finally fixed an embarrassing problem

    How I use the Sourcegraph extension for VS Code

    Murat Sutunc

    February 8, 2022

    Sourcegraph’s extension for Visual Studio Code allows you to search millions of open source repositories without cloning them to your local machine or leaving your IDE. Here’s how one engineering manager integrates it into his workflow.

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    How I use the Sourcegraph extension for VS Code

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