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An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools

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.

Cheating is All You Need

There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don't realize at all how big it is.

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.

Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Platform with Go

Mistakes C/C++ Devs make writing Go

Go reliability and durability at Dropbox

Sourcegraph Server 2.4: free, powerful search for private code

Sourcegraph 2.4 is here. It is now free for unlimited users and repositories, can be installed in minutes with a single docker run command, and is easily configurable in the new web-based site admin.

gRPC in Production

A deep dive into the Go memory allocator and garbage collector

Implementing a network protocol in Go

Steve Yegge Joins as Head of Engineering of Sourcegraph

TL;DR: Steve Yegge has joined Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering, where we are building the world's most open and comprehensive code intelligence platform (CIP).

Go says Wat

Revisiting the design approach to Zig

Zig is a general-purpose programming language that can act as a drop-in replacement for C / C++, letting you incrementally improve your code base.

A 5x reduction in RAM usage with Zoekt memory optimizations

Recently, we've been working to scale Sourcegraph cloud's index to 1 million open source repositories and beyond. Part of that effort has been reducing the RAM usage for the Zoekt (pronounced "zooked") servers responsible for handling most of our code searches.

Postgres text search: balancing query time and relevancy

How do you balance query time and relevance with Postgres text search? Stephen Gutekanst, an engineer working on Sourcegraph's API docs feature, shares tips for stirring code analysis with search indexing.

Open Sourcing Cody – Sourcegraph's AI-enabled editor assistant

Cody, Sourcegraph's AI-enabled editor assistant, is now open source.

Computer Vision Using Go and OpenCV 3