How to balance query time and relevance with Postgres text search, an insightful article by @slimsag working on Sourcegraph’s API docs feature, stirring code analysis with search indexing

Engineering managers and ICs at Sourcegraph once lacked a common language for growth. Here’s the story of how we developed the first version of our first engineering career framework.

Adam Gordon Bell, Developer Advocate at Earthly, shares how he leverages dev tools to write consistent, high-quality technical prose.

Spending more time on dependency issues than writing code—we’ve all been there, but it doesn’t have to be a one-way ticket.

We used to store secrets in our source code. Here’s how we used code search to help us find, remove, and rotate all secrets in our codebase.

Engineers are leading the way toward rethinking the 40-hour work week. Here, seven Sourcegraph team members, all current or former software engineers, share how and why they transformed their work calendars to support their preferred lifestyles.

Paul Jolly, maintainer on the CUE project and co-creator of Play with Go, shares how a minimalist desk setup, combined with the sophisticated programming language CUE, creates a streamlined development environment.

Liz Fong-Jones, Principal Developer Advocate at Honeycomb and long-time Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), shares how nano, Honeycomb, and ARM processors fit together into a moveable, minimal workflow for development.

Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder, CTO, and now individual contributor at HashiCorp, shares how reproducible environments with NixOS and an iPad fit into his developer workflow, and his sentiments about IDEs.

We’ve indexed over 1M open source repositories on Sourcegraph cloud to bring code search to the open source universe and code literacy to a much wider set of people.

Here’s how we went from using 1400KB of RAM per repo to just 310KB without affecting latency.

Thorsten Ball, software engineer at Sourcegraph, shares how he uses tmux as a window manager for the terminal, and goes to bat for Vim.

Here's a sneak peek of our latest experiment to bring API documentation to all your code, generated by LSIF code intelligence data.

Leah Culver, iOS Developer at Twitter, joined us to share some developer life hacks, her minimalist, no-config philosophy for tools, and her secret for reaching inbox zero.

We raised a $125M Series D to bring really great code search to every developer in the world. With this new funding, we’re prioritizing innovations that will push the frontier of developer experience.

We raised a $125M Series D to bring really great code search to every developer in the world. With this new funding, we’re prioritizing innovations that will push the frontier of developer experience.

When we switched to a new search query parser in September 2020, you'd never know that anything had changed. This is an account of the rigorous testing that happened behind the scenes to ensure a seamless transition.

We're launching an entirely new visual design for the Sourcegraph UI today! We've added so many features to Sourcegraph in the last few years, that we needed an entirely new visual design to keep up with our advancements. Let's take a look at some of the new designs and how they will help users n...

Observability and tracking the right metrics are critical to development teams' success. We chatted to Charity Majors of Honeycomb about bridging the gap between dev and ops, and making software more comprehensible to everyone.

We enabled Sourcegraph to resolve code intelligence requests for commits missing an index, but ran into scalability challenges when dealing with large commit graphs. Here's how we unearthed and resolved the problem.

Building robust software that runs at scale is a team effort. Here are 3 engineering leaders on how they use both human and automated processes to set their growing teams up for success.

We enabled Sourcegraph to respond to requests for commits missing a code intelligence index quickly and with precise results. Read about our journey.

Here’s how our rapidly growing all-remote product and design teams collaborated asynchronously to define Sourcegraph’s inclusive product design principles to help us scale consistently.

A data-driven look at how the rise in code complexity affects new developers joining a team, and how engineering managers can support new hires with better onboarding.

Check out the recording of our first episode of Dev Tool Time, in which Google Cloud Engineer Seth Vargo shares his tips for a productivity-optimized desk setup, efficient window management, and keyboard shortcuts.

From "Automation" to "Campaigns" to "Batch Changes", this is the story of how we built (and rebuilt) our latest code search product, Batch Changes, and the lessons we learned along the way.

As of Sourcegraph 3.27, we're updating the minimum supported version of Postgres from 9.6 to 12. Here's why.

We asked 17 Sourcegraph developers about their workspace preferences. Here's what we found.

Today we're announcing Sourcegraph's $50M Series C round of funding led by Sequoia. We'll use this funding to bring universal code search to more developers and companies.

After leaving Google, many engineers miss the developer tools. Here's one ex-Googler's guide to navigating the dev tools landscape outside of Google, finding the ones that fill the gaps you're feeling, and introducing these to your new team.

This article originally appeared on Fast Company. At Sourcegraph, we’re all-remote. That means we write a lot—in emails, Google Docs, Github, and Slack. We work hard to cultivate a written-first culture. And that works beautifully for me. Because, you see, I have a hearing problem. Or as I like to…

One of the things that comes with being an open source company is a commitment to transparency. As an industry, we mostly think about this in terms of source code, and at Sourcegraph we think of this in terms of the company itself, including product direction. I’d like to extend that to security…

I find code checkers like linters and lightweight static analyzers most valuable when they teach me better ways to code in a language or framework. For example, the Go staticcheck tool finds expensive string comparisons like: and suggests instead: These short-and-sweet replacements are a great way…

We’re experimenting with a new way to think about code ownership, and have built a new tool called Codenotify. Codenotify enables developers to easily subscribe to file changes in a Git repository without creating the expectation that changes to those files are blocked on the subscriber’s review…

When I first began my career as a software engineer, I thought I knew where I wanted to go (become a Senior Software Engineer) and how to get there (write better code faster). I was wrong on both accounts. First, by focusing on a generic career ladder instead of my individual career path, I was…

We are happy to announce that the Sourcegraph design team has grown from 0 to 3! 🎉 The early stages of a new team are full of changes and unexpected challenges. I would like to show you what our first months of working together looked like, what we have accomplished, and our plans for the future…

We (Sourcegraph’s code intelligence team) recently made Go code intelligence faster, especially on very large repositories. For example, we cut the indexing time by 95% for the huge Go AWS SDK repository, from 8 minutes to 24 seconds. Here’s how we did it. Background: what is code intelligence…

Our team has been hard at work continuing to improve Sourcegraph, so you can spend more time coding and less time trying to make sense of things. Sourcegraph 3.18 brings a solid lineup of new features and enhancements, including searching across multiple revisions at a time, GitLab support in…

Often, you need to understand the differences between code at different branches (especially for release branches that have diverged). In Sourcegraph 3.18, you can now search across multiple revisions of the same repository by listing multiple branch names (or other revision specifiers) separated...

Developers on some teams frequently search multiple revisions, such as long-lived release branches or important tags. We added version contexts in Sourcegraph 3.16 to make it easier for developers to search a collection of repositories at specified revisions. However, Sourcegraph still only indexed…

As part of our ongoing effort to extend precise code intelligence to as many languages as possible, we’ve developed lsif-clang, a new LSIF indexer based on the clangd language server. This means that customers using C and C++ now have access to precise code intelligence. This improves on the work...

We continue to make improvements to Sourcegraph’s out-of-the-box instrumentation and monitoring. You can now configure critical alerts to go to Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, webhooks, or email, so it’s easier than ever before to get notified about critical issues. Alerts are now delivered with…

Sourcegraph.com now has custom search pages for major open source communities. These pages provide targeted documentation with suggested queries specifically for users and contributors in each community, and searches are scoped by default to repositories relevant to that community. This is a great…

We’ve improved in-product documentation to clarify how Sourcegraph fetches data from code hosts. We heard from some first-time users that they were uncertain about how Sourcegraph would use access tokens and how much additional load Sourcegraph would put on code host servers. The new docs make it…

Felicis Ventures has invested an additional $5M in Sourcegraph, bringing our total raised to over $46M, including our $23M Series B in March 2020 led by Craft Ventures. We’re seeing rapid growth in the number of companies and developers using Sourcegraph, especially as the pandemic causes dev teams…

Sourcegraph 3.17: Faster and automatic precise code intelligence, preview of code insights, and AND/OR queries for searching file contents

Read about how we used a memory and CPU profiler, creative thinking, and a lot of developer elbow grease to optimize our semantic code indexing system to give users twice-as-fast tooltips, go-to-definition, and references.

We've spent a year building out the world's largest semantic code index using the Language Server Index Format (LSIF). Read about the technical journey, from MVP to scaling and optimizing the system to support large-scale codebases.

Sourcegraph 3.16: Search past releases, get started with campaigns, and enjoy syntax highlighting improvements

So much of what we do as programmers boils down to automating the tedium out of our work. We’d like to spend our lives focusing on the design of beautiful abstractions and algorithms, but before we can get to that, we have to do the dirty work—and do it quickly. Whether you are a newbie or a…

With many family homes now being an office (and perhaps a school as well), we wanted a new and novel approach for embracing the spirit of the United States’ annual ”Take Our Kids to Work” day. We love what we’ve come up with and hope you will too—a new digital children’s book titled ”Our ABCs…

Sourcegraph 3.15: Campaigns beta available, GitHub repository permissions, experimental AND/OR operators, and improved observability

Sourcegraph transitioned from remote-first to all-remote early 2020. In this white paper, we share some tips and tricks on how to live your best distributed work life and a summary of why using Sourcegraph makes remote software development easier.

At Sourcegraph we are working toward a long term goal of making code intelligence results both fast and precise. Today, Sourcegraph provides basic code intelligence for many languages using our search engine. It’s fast, requires zero configuration, and covers many use cases, but the results are not…

Universal Code Intelligence for GitHub means bringing code navigation features such as hover tooltips, go to definition, and find references to every code view and pull request, supporting every popular language, and all public and private repositories on both GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise.

On February 20, 2020, we officially moved out of our amazing San Francisco office and became an all-remote company. Few people have worked at an all-remote company before, and I frequently get questions—especially from candidates—about what led to this decision.

I’m always curious to see other people’s desks (who isn’t?) to get a glimpse of their setup, and after seeing the home office desks of Basecamp, I immediately wanted to have the same collection for Sourcegraph. As an all-remote company, we only have home office setups and they range from “sparse”...

With the GitLab native code intelligence integration from Sourcegraph, you can bring IDE-like features such as hover tooltips and go to definition to every GitLab code view. The below screencasts show you how to enable the Sourcegraph integration for both GitLab CE/EE and GitLab.com. Native code…

Sourcegraph 3.14: Faster repository permissions, excluding forks and archived repositories by default, and Docker Compose deployment

Universal Code Search for GitLab

Universal Code Search for GitHub

Today is a big milestone for Sourcegraph. We’ve raised $23M in Series B funding, led by David Sacks at Craft Ventures. Our existing investors at Goldcrest, Redpoint, Hanover, and Burst also participated. We’re excited to welcome David Sacks of Craft Ventures to our board of directors. David helped…

Sourcegraph 3.13: Interactive search mode, structural search toggle, and campaigns with custom code execution

We’re introducing a new way to search code at Sourcegraph with structural code search. Structural code search lets you match nested expressions and whole code blocks that can be difficult or awkward to match using regular expressions. What is structural code search? Structural code search is the…

Sourcegraph 3.12: Match case toggle, draft campaigns, and exciting experimental features

Sourcegraph 3.11: Structural search, removed management console, language statistics, and NPM credentials campaign

TypeScript and ECMAScript have some of the most beautiful constructs and syntaxes to do parallel, non-blocking programming—but unfortunately, only for standard APIs like fetch in the browser or file IO in Node. When implementing anything CPU-bound in TypeScript, offloading it into a different…

Learn how Sourcegraph code search helped Lyft ensure (largely) issue-free production deploys during their monolith to microservices decomposition

Code navigation helps you review code in GitHub pull requests more quickly and effectively. Hovers show you documentation and type information for symbols. Go to definition jumps you to where a function (or other symbol) is defined. Find references lists everywhere a function (or other symbol) is…

Sourcegraph enables SoFi to innovate and move quickly while ensuring production stability for hundreds of microservices.

Sourcegraph 3.10: Improved search autocompletion, native GitLab integration, and search and replace campaigns

Check out the below video where Quinn sat down with GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij to discuss the native GitLab integration, and why Sourcegraph’s code intelligence means better code reviews and improved code quality for GitLab Enterprise customers and open source projects on GitLab.com. Over 100,00…

Since 2015, Convoy has quickly grown to over 500 employees. Sourcegraph helps them improve their developer on-boarding process.

At Convoy, Sourcegraph is transforming how engineers and data scientists collaborate, resulting in greater efficiency and improved data integrity.

“Trust is great. Control is better.” - German proverb In December 2017, Sourcegraph went from being a traditional cloud-hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) product to an on-premises, self-hosted product. This blog post covers what drove our decision and what challenges we encountered. It explains…

Sourcegraph 3.9: Literal search by default, multi-project LSIF code intelligence, Grafana dashboards, and configuration

Writing an LSIF Indexer

Sourcegraph 3.8: Search UI improvements, monitoring tools, code change campaigns, and LSIF-based code intelligence

Sourcegraph is proud to be hosting the first ever liveblog for Strange Loop 2019, and we're looking for attendees to help contribute.

Founded in 2006, Quantcast's engineering team had amassed thousands of repositories. Learn how after deploying Sourcegraph, Quantcast was able to do major refactors with confidence.

Sourcegraph 3.7: Improved performance, efficiency, accuracy, and reliability

Sourcegraph 3.6: Bitbucket Server plugin, search performance improvements, and quick links

Thorn builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse, helping law enforcement reduce investigation times by 60%, ensuring that more children are found, faster. Sourcegraph is helping Thorn with their mission, by making it safer to deprecate legacy applications—searching all repositories i...

Sourcegraph 3.5: Powerful new search filters, improved configuration, and Bitbucket Server repository permissions

Sourcegraph is the standard developer platform for code search and navigation at many of the largest and most exacting technology companies. With Sourcegraph, every company can get access to the same kind of tools that Google and Facebook developers use every day. We’re excited to announce…

In this post, we’ll explain how Sourcegraph code search can be used to report on the progress of upgrading CircleCI config files to the 2.0 format. CircleCI 2.0 officially came out of beta in July 2017, introducing a versioned config file () to replace the previous file. A likely scenario could be…

Sourcegraph 3.3: Improving the user experience for site admins

Tooling has always been a focus for TypeScript and a large reason for its success. TypeScript code intelligence is available across many editors and even web-based tools, all provided by the same service TypeScript ships out-of-the-box with the compiler itself. This presentation gives a tour and…

Sourcegraph 3.2: (Mostly) no new features - Improved stability, setup, and documentation

Sourcegraph 3.1 released

Sourcegraph 3.0 is now shipping! This release comes with HUGE improvements so you can search and navigate all your organization’s code more quickly, with code intelligence (go-to-definition and find-references) for all languages. What is Sourcegraph? Sourcegraph is an open source, self-hosted, cr...

Update: Sourcegraph 3.0 is now released. Beta instances should update now. We’ve removed the 3.0 beta announcement text here to avoid confusion, but you can view the original 3.0 beta announcement if needed.

Improving language support in 2019

New GraphQL Sourcegraph extension

Code intelligence for Java and PHP (and other experimental languages) will be temporarily unavailable for public code on Sourcegraph.com starting Friday, November 30, as we transition to a new, more extensible way of adding language support using Sourcegraph extensions. Only public code on…

Announcing Sourcegraph 2.13 Sourcegraph 2.13 ships today, with several improvements: Indexed search option for single-node Docker container deployment to speed up searches (previously Enterprise-only, now free and open source) More ways to specify which GitHub and GitHub Enterprise repositories to…

Our CEO @sqs (Quinn Slack) was on the Future of Coding podcast this week to talk about basic developer human rights, the Sourcegraph master plan, and the future of developer tools. As a developer, you have these questions you need answered: How do I do this thing in the code? Why is it built this…

We are building the best code search and browsing tool for your team to help you write, review, and ship code better. Our mission is to bring the future sooner by bringing the best tools to developers everywhere. Our announcement this month that Sourcegraph is now open source is one way we will get…

Do you use Vim and miss the powerful features for navigating your code that Sourcegraph gives you in your browser? Code intelligence in Sourcegraph is powered by language servers that implement the Language Server Protocol. This means you can install these language servers locally and get code…

End-to-end tests are an important part of our testing infrastructure at Sourcegraph. At the top of the testing pyramid, their job is to ensure key user flows work properly from the user interacting with the browser all the way to backend services that work behind the scenes. However, they pose a…

Our mission is to build the best code search and browsing tool for your team to help you write the highest quality software possible. Here’s new, what’s changed, and what’s fixed. Simplified browser extension configuration Deploy Sourcegraph to Kubernetes with plain YAML Webhooks for manual…

Minimal version selection is an idea that Russ Cox proposed for how to resolve the dependencies of Go modules. When installing or updating dependencies, minimal version selection always selects the minimal (oldest) module version that satisfies the overall requirements of a build. Minimal version…

Today was my first day back to work at Sourcegraph after my 3 1/2 months* long maternity leave. I consider myself lucky to be working at a company that is family friendly and has made my journey to parenthood much easier than expected. I decided to share some of the points I believe Sourcegraph and…

Docker announced that the Docker Hub and Docker Store (backed by the same Docker Registry) will be down (totally offline) from 11:00 Pacific Time 25 August with 15-45 minutes (expected) downtime. You may be thinking “I use Kubernetes, doesn’t this only affect people executing ? Well yes, but that...

Sourcegraph’s browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox are now open source in sourcegraph/sourcegraph. These popular browser extensions add code intelligence (hovers, go to definition, find references, find implementations, and soon much more) to every website where you read code — including Git...

One of my favorite things about Sourcegraph is the fact that we are a team of developers building a product for developers. This means that everyone on the team has product intuition and can participate in planning what we are going to work on for our next release. Normally we spend time reviewing…

We’re working hard to build the best code search and browsing tool for your team, so you can write, review, and ship code better. In this month’s release, we focused on improving the user experience and repository syncing for Sourcegraph’s integrations with GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket…

In Sourcegraph 2.9, we focused on improving the code search, rollout, and deployment experience for organizations with 100s and 1,000s of developers and repositories. We’re building Sourcegraph to be the best way for developers to search and browse code, and we’re thankful for all the feedback…

At Sourcegraph, we’re building not only a great product for engineers, but also a great, inclusive company for engineers to be a part of. Over the last few months, we’ve been experimenting with our hiring process and wanted to share our experience so far. (Our last experiment was putting open roles…

Update: Sourcegraph now uses Sourcegraph extensions for language support. This blog post has been removed to avoid confusion. We’re still eager to sponsor people to build and improve open source, LSP-based language servers. Contact us if you’re interested, either as a part-time effort or to join ...

Sourcegraph 2.8 is out today, with support for more languages, huge monorepos, and more! Sourcegraph is a code search and intelligence tool that helps your team code more productively. With Sourcegraph, developers can find code examples, view references/callers, locate definitions, etc., across all…

Having worked at GitHub and spent more time than is probably warranted tweaking my dotfiles, I consider myself a developer tools enthusiast. Recently, I found myself spending more and more of my free time smoothing out my development process, including hacking on auto-import for Haskell in VS Code…

Sourcegraph 2.7 ships today, with tons of new features and improvements to help your team build better software. Get code intelligence in seconds with no setup, view diffs with code intelligence directly in Sourcegraph, and get more information when finding references. This release comes with many…

Our product, Sourcegraph, lets software teams search and explore their code, so naturally we think a lot about how to help software teams ship better software faster. As we’ve grown, we’ve learned a lot from GitHub, Visual Studio Code, GitLab, and other teams who have shared their internal proces...

Sourcegraph + Bitbucket Today, we’re bringing fast, powerful code search to the thousands of development teams on Bitbucket Server. With Sourcegraph 2.6, we’ve built out native support for Bitbucket Server to make it easier to get code search across all your Bitbucket Server repositories. Follow…

We’re excited to announce Sourcegraph 2.6, with tons of new features and improvements to help your team build better software. Search for and jump directly to symbols, search for the code you need more quickly, and set up Sourcegraph to search across all of your code–all available now. This release…

In Go, it is idiomatic to have explicit error handling. This means that many functions return an in addition to the expected result (e.g. strconv.ParseBool). Go code can also panic and recover, which is similar to throwing and catching exceptions in other languages. In Go, panic should be reserved…

Monitor code changes with Google Alerts-style notifications, get code intelligence in reviews/PRs, and search over thousands of repositories in hundreds of milliseconds—all with Sourcegraph 2.5, shipping today. This release also includes other highly requested features, such as native GitLab supp...

Sourcegraph 2.4 is here. It is now free for unlimited users and repositories, can be installed in minutes with a single command, and is easily configurable in the new web-based site admin. This release also includes many performance and bug fixes, plus a better interface for monitoring search…

Search code over all of your company’s repositories, save and reuse common search queries and scopes, and do it all more quickly with style. This release also includes previews of diff/commit search and author/date filters, which help you debug issues and find usage examples in your company’s code…

Install Sourcegraph to get great code search on AWS CodeCommit Sourcegraph brings great code search and understanding abilities to development teams using AWS CodeCommit. Code search helps your engineering team find usage examples, debug errors, reuse existing libraries and packages, and understand…

This is inspired by the classic essay Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager. Great code search is so fast and relevant that you use it constantly while coding. It’s one of your top keybindings. Bad code search is slow and stale, and you only find it useful a few times per week. If you haven’t…

We’ve been hard at work on improvements to Sourcegraph to give you great code search on your company’s code. Here’s what’s new and improved: Code search: There is now a directory listing view with the last Git commit for each subdirectory and file. Query terms are now interpreted as regexps, not…

Today, we’re releasing more powerful code search on Sourcegraph.com and Sourcegraph. You can use operators such as repo: and file: to restrict your search to certain repositories and files (by regular expression match on their name). For example, repo:foo will restrict your query to repositories…

Update: This blog post has been edited to remove references to outdated features. We’ve been hard at work on some major improvements to how you search, browse, and review code. Today we’re excited to announce several big new features. Introducing Sourcegraph Already used by many of our customers ...

At Sourcegraph, we think you deserve code intelligence whenever you’re looking at code. So, when GitHub introduced embedded code snippets for GitHub issues, we quickly updated the Sourcegraph Chrome extension to add code intelligence to these snippets. Code intelligence on embedded code snippets…

We’ve added a file tree to GitHub so that you can quickly explore an entire repository and jump between files without taking your hands off the keyboard.FileTree Get started by downloading the Sourcegraph for GitHub Chrome extension And then jump into a repository https://github.com/hootsuite…

Liveblog by Matt KingSelection 012 Slides for this talk have been posted here. About The Speaker Marty Schoch is a Senior Software Engineer at Couchbase and the lead developer at Bleve, an open source full-text search library for Go. Overview Marty explores the internals of a high-performance key…

Liveblog by Beyang Liu (@beyang) Alan Shreve is an hacker, entrepreneur and creator of ngrok.com. ngrok is the best way to connect expose services behind a NAT or firewall to the internet for demos, webhook development and IoT connectivity. Today, he’s giving us a whirlwind tour of gRPC and how to…

jp robinson JP Robinson, principal engineer at the New York Times, has “drunk Peter’s koolaid” with respect to Go kit. github.com/NYTimes/gizmo adapts Go kit for use inside a production ecosystem with a bunch of existing legacy services. The NYTimes uses it across almost all their production Go…

Faster, smoother GitHub code browsing with the updated Sourcegraph Chrome extension. We’re excited to announce more improvements to the Sourcegraph Chrome extension. More than 10,000 developers use it to browse and search code on GitHub with the power of an IDE. In addition to the new features…

Pick your favorite Java repository and a revision and file at random (or try this one). Visit that file in Sourcegraph and within seconds, you can jump to definition (Ctrl/⌘-click), find all references (right click), search for symbols (Ctrl/⌘-p), and view usage examples drawn from other projects…

Today, we announce general availability for Java on Sourcegraph. If you write Java, this means that you can now use Sourcegraph to: Explore code without losing your place in your editor Get IDE-like functionality to your code review tool Learn from usage examples drawn from across the open source…

Update (September 20, 2017): Viewing a list of repositories that refer to another repository is currently disabled. It will be added back soon. Viewing function call sites across repositories is still supported. We’re excited to announce that Sourcegraph “used by” badges now support Java libraries…

In-repository code search is now available in Sourcegraph. Simply click the magnifying glass icon above the file tree, type your search term, and click enter. Once you select a result, you’ll get full code intelligence, including our info panel whenever you click a method, variable or struct. In…

Matt Holt is the creator of the popular Caddy Web Server. Caddy is called what it is because it acts like a compartment for all your server things. Most people use its HTTP server, but Caddy can also serve DNS, and there are a number of other plugins that extend Caddy’s functionality.1*dxC5SLwJzx…

Today, we’re enabling Code Intelligence on Sourcegraph.com for Java projects that use Maven. Our preview release of Java means you can jump to definition, find references, and hover over for docs on many of your favorite Java repositories — all without configuring a single editor plugin or clonin...

The problem of Code Intelligence and the need for an open standard Update: Part 2 of this series is now published. Sourcegraph lets you view any line of code in your web browser with all the navigation features of an IDE and more. That includes both classic abilities — like jump-to-definition, find…

Making Code Intelligence “just work” In my last post, I introduced the Language Server Protocol as the open source protocol that we at Sourcegraph believe will enable a new set of developer tools powered by Code Intelligence. Code Intelligence, if you recall, is just shorthand for jump-to-def find…

Update: See ”Repository badges” in Sourcegraph documentation for the latest information about this feature.

First, some background: Beyang and I have deep respect for how Google builds software. Beyang interned there, and I’ve worked with Googlers on many open source projects, including Chromium. What’s their secret? How are they so good? Ask any Google developer, and they’ll give much of the credit to…

I have been fortunate in my career to work with some amazing founders and CEOs. Lloyd Tabb, Ben Porterfield, and Frank Bien at Looker are building the data platform that I have been craving since I started working in technology. Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza at Xamarin brought mobile development…

(Note: if you want to skip the poetry and just check out the project, click here) Begin code review. Too many lines, what to do? Hmm. LGTM?Code review is tedious. there’s a better way to review fast but ensure good code quality: One-click jump-to-def and hover over for docs. Save time and focus…

What’s the best semantic and future-proof way to link to a piece of code? There’s been some interesting discussion about the right way, and it’s something we think about a lot at Sourcegraph as we build a better way for developers to discover and understand code. The consensus is that when you’re…

Today, we’re announcing a new edition of Sourcegraph that makes it even faster and easier to answer your everyday programming questions. If you code in Go, check it out now. If you use another language, sign up for the beta — we’ll have news for you in the next couple of weeks! If you’re new to…

Lynn Langit, Cloud & Data Architect Director of Teaching Kids Programming (slides)1*3eFc2KNwHBjrHFpD vjbhA She tells the story of Matt, a fifth grade history teacher who wrote some bacon-related code in Swift Lynn’s daughter has been coding since age 8 and taught Matt how to code. Matt now teaches…

About a month ago, Sourcegraph released Checkup, an open source, self-hosted uptime monitoring system written by Matt Holt. Following its release, a lot of people asked us how we were using Checkup at Sourcegraph. Today, we’re sharing our public status page, powered by Checkup, and laying out some…

At Sourcegraph, we believe building for the future requires learning the lessons of the past. This is the first in a series of blog posts that cover historical anecdotes about software engineering that have inspired us as we build tools for the modern developer. We’re sharing these, because we th...

It’s like a CPU profiler, but for your productivity rather than your machine’s Do you ever think about how to make yourself a more productive programmer? At Sourcegraph, this is a question we think about every day. Our entire mission is to make your life as a developer easier and more efficient…

Andrey Petrov (@shazow) spoke at the Sourcegraph office about lessons learned from his successes and “many failures” (his phrase) creating open source projects. Andrey is author of the popular urllib3 library (explore urllib3 on Sourcegraph) and several other popular open source libraries. During…

Today, Sourcegraph is excited to announce Checkup, a simple tool that lets you easily create distributed, self-hosted health checks and status pages.0*bR4H1dPKkhf6T-hC The Checkup status page works out of the box Monitoring uptime is a crucial part of running any web service. It lets you sleep well…

From the very beginning at Sourcegraph, it’s been our goal to build a product so helpful that people could never go back to programming the old way. Sourcegraph helps developers discover and understand code, and to address such a complex need requires us to deeply understand our users. We’d like to…

Juan Benet (@juanbenet) spoke at the Sourcegraph Hacker Meetup about his project, “IPFS: The Permanent Web” (slides and video). IPFS is a bold attempt at evolving the Internet’s infrastructure. Here’s how Juan describes it to Sourcegraph: IPFS is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer file system. It…

There are many benefits to contributing to a popular open source project like Docker: You earn recognition for improving a project used by many people. You get to collaborate with other amazingly smart people in the open source community. You become a better programmer yourself through the process…

Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could review, browse, and search code on GitHub as though you were in an IDE, with jump-to-definition, doc tooltips, and cross-references? We think so. That’s why we built the Sourcegraph Chrome extension for GitHub. Update (June 22, 2016): Added support for pull…

Every developer knows they should instrument their app to identify perf bottlenecks, but it’s hard to actually get around to doing it — especially when you’re focused on shipping the latest and greatest features of your site.0*jXkIPsoJBjXY80cs Today we’re announcing Appdash, an open source multi…

Innovation fellow of the U.S. Digital Service, a.k.a. the “president’s startup.” His time as innovation fellow started in 2014, right around the time the conversation around law enforcement and Ferguson was coming to a tipping point. Big demand for better data around policing, especially with…

Use Sourcegraph to discover and understand code better There’s a gold mine of code available to programmers, but choosing the right library and understanding how to use it can be tricky. We created Sourcegraph, a fast, semantic code search and cross-reference engine, to help developers like you…

This was originally a talk at Google I/O 2014. Check out the slides and YouTube video. Thanks to the Go team for inviting us! What is Sourcegraph? Sourcegraph is a large-scale, multi-language code search and cross-reference engine that indexes hundreds of thousands of open source repositories…

Building software is hard. We hosted a casual dinner here at the Sourcegraph office in downtown San Francisco for ten developers from leading startup software teams. At the dinner, the teams shared a behind-the-scenes look at their processes (and frustrations): testing, deployment, and code reviews…

Today we’re excited to announce a step toward giving every team the power to build better software — the developer release of Sourcegraph, the fast, semantic code search and cross-reference engine. As developers, we always wanted a better way to discover and understand code: Why can’t your code h...

We invited ten developers from leading tech startups around the Bay Area to join us for an “off-the-record” dinner to discuss the practice of code review (and what we want in an ideal code review process). Below is a wrap-up of the salient points from our dinner. Given the off-the-record nature of…

Can a policy that banks use to combat insider fraud also make tech companies produce better products and happier employees? Sure. At Sourcegraph, our mandatory vacation policy requires everyone to completely disconnect from work for at least 2 weeks each year — no exceptions.0*oDIH90jQ4ZzUANWM Ph...

Do you use the best tools money can buy? We ask ourselves that a lot at Sourcegraph. It’s one of the questions in The Joel Test, Joel Spolsky’s classic 12-question benchmark of your team’s software engineering practices. Since he published the test in 2000, the “best tools money can buy” have…