Blog | Sourcegraph

JUN 17, 2022

"Shift left"—wtf does it mean?

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?

JUN 8, 2022

scip-typescript: a new TypeScript and JavaScript indexer

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.

JUN 8, 2022

SCIP - a better code indexing format than LSIF

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.".

MAY 25, 2022

No secrets! Quickly find sensitive files in your GitHub repo

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.

MAY 24, 2022

Sourcegraph 3.40 release

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.

MAY 10, 2022

A dev's thoughts on developer productivity

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.

APR 28, 2022

5 key elements of successful monolith-to-microservices migrations

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.

APR 28, 2022

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

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.

APR 26, 2022

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

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!

APR 21, 2022

Sourcegraph 3.39 release

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

APR 21, 2022

Interact with Sourcegraph from the command line faster with Fig

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

MAR 21, 2022

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

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.

MAR 21, 2022

Sourcegraph 3.38 release

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

MAR 10, 2022

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

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.

MAR 10, 2022

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

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

FEB 22, 2022

Broken database migrations: How we finally fixed an embarrassing problem

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.

FEB 22, 2022

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.

JAN 21, 2022

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.

JAN 13, 2022

How we added backend integration testing to our CI pipeline

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.

JAN 10, 2022

Redefining the OSS universe: Why we'rer broadening our index to include more code hosts

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.