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strings: the Sourcegraph blog

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    A dev's thoughts on developer productivity

    Beyang Liu on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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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    Sourcegraph 3.39 release

    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

    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 on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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

    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 on 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 on 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

    Sourcegraph 3.36 release

    Sourcegraph 3.36 introduces the ability to push branches from Batch Changes to forks, a new file fuzzy finder, Notebooks for code search documentation, and query-based search contexts.

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    Sourcegraph 3.36 release

    How we added backend integration testing to our CI pipeline

    Joe Chen on January 13, 2022

    Here's the story, and the lessons learned, from our work to remove all existing backend-related end-to-end tests and reliably run their corresponding unit and/or integration tests as part of our CI pipeline on all branches.

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    How we added backend integration testing to our CI pipeline

    Redefining the OSS universe: Why we’re broadening our index to include more code hosts

    Loïc Guychard and Jeff Warner on January 10, 2022

    Rather than further growing our global index with more repositories from GitHub.com and GitLab.com, we’ll be focusing on broadening the set of code hosts Sourcegraph Cloud indexes from.

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    Redefining the OSS universe: Why we’re broadening our index to include more code hosts

    Sourcegraph 3.35 release

    Sourcegraph 3.35 introduces precise Code Intelligence for Java, Scala, and Kotlin, plus the ability to publish changesets to multiple branches of a repository with a single batch change.

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    Sourcegraph 3.35 release

    Precise Code Intelligence for Java, Scala, and Kotlin

    Ólafur Páll Geirsson on December 20, 2021

    We are excited to announce that Sourcegraph now supports precise Code Intelligence for Java, Scala, and Kotlin, enabling compiler-accurate “Go to definition” and “Find references” within a Git repository and all transitive dependencies of your codebase.

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    Precise Code Intelligence for Java, Scala, and Kotlin

    Log4j Log4Shell 0-day: find, fix, and track affected code

    Quinn Slack on December 13, 2021

    The steps to identify and fix/mitigate the log4j Log4Shell 0-day (CVE-2021-44228) in your code have been widely reported. But they're manual and tedious, and it's hard to track the progress of fixes/mitigations across all your code. Here's how code search can help find, fix, and track code affect...

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