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Sourcegraph is a powerful code search and intelligence tool that helps developers navigate and understand large codebases efficiently. It provides advanced search functionality across multiple repositories, making it easier to find references, functions, and dependencies. Additionally, Sourcegraph integrates with various development workflows to streamline code reviews and collaboration across teams.
Beyang Liu is the CTO and Co-Founder at Sourcegraph, where he has worked for the past twelve years. In this episode he joins the show with Sean Falconer to talk about the frontier of leveraging AI in software engineering.
Sean’s been an academic, startup fo...2025-04-0144 minSoftware Engineering DailySourcegraph and the Frontier of AI in Software Engineering with Beyang Liu
Sourcegraph is a powerful code search and intelligence tool that helps developers navigate and understand large codebases efficiently. It provides advanced search functionality across multiple repositories, making it easier to find references, functions, and dependencies. Additionally, Sourcegraph integrates with various development workflows to streamline code reviews and collaboration across teams.
Beyang Liu is the CTO and Co-Founder at Sourcegraph, where he has worked for the past twelve years. In this episode he joins the show with Sean Falconer to talk about the frontier of leveraging AI in software engineering.
Sean’s been an academic, startup fo...2025-04-0144 minAll Content Archives - Software Engineering DailySourcegraph and the Frontier of AI in Software Engineering with Beyang Liu
Sourcegraph is a powerful code search and intelligence tool that helps developers navigate and understand large codebases efficiently. It provides advanced search functionality across multiple repositories, making it easier to find references, functions, and dependencies. Additionally, Sourcegraph integrates with various development workflows to streamline code reviews and collaboration across teams.
Beyang Liu is the CTO and Co-Founder at Sourcegraph, where he has worked for the past twelve years. In this episode he joins the show with Sean Falconer to talk about the frontier of leveraging AI in software engineering.
Sean’s been an academic, startup fo...2025-04-0144 min
Software Engineering DailySourcegraph and the Frontier of AI in Software Engineering with Beyang Liu2025-04-0144 min
Changelog InterviewsReaching industrial economies of scaleBeyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Beyang go deep on the idea of “industrializing software development” using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innovate again and again. From their editor assistant called Cody, to Code Search, to AI agents, to Batch Changes, they’re really helping software teams to industrialize the process, the inner and the outer loop, of being a software developer on high performance teams with large codebases.
Join the discussionChan...2025-03-121h 44Changelog Master FeedReaching industrial economies of scale (Changelog Interviews #632)Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Bryant go deep on the idea of “industrializing software development” using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innovate again and again. From their editor assistant called Cody, to Code Search, to AI agents, to Batch Changes, they’re really helping software teams to industrialize the process, the inner and the outer loop, of being a software developer on high performance teams with large codebases.
Join the discussionChan...2025-03-121h 44The Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceReaching industrial economies of scale (Interview)Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Beyang go deep on the idea of “industrializing software development” using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innovate again and again. From their editor assistant called Cody, to Code Search, to AI agents, to Batch Changes, they’re really helping software teams to industrialize the process, the inner and the outer loop, of being a software developer on high performance teams with large codebases.
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Building Jam4 SF Startups Reimagine Devtools w/ AIToday, we’re trying something a little different! This week we hosted an awesome group of engineers w/ Cloudflare and Sourcegraph in SF for tech talks about the future of engineering w/ AI. The talks were so good - we grabbed the highlights to discuss and share them with you all!Let’s get into it!(00:10) Why we love hosting dev events(01:24) Making AI work for large messy codebases - Beyang Liu, CTO at Sourcegraph(06:23) Why S(mall)LMs are the future of AI - Tejas Kumar, AI at DataStax(12:06) Rebuilding the term...2024-11-2225 min
SourceForge PodcastThe Most Powerful & Accurate AI Coding Assistant: Sourcegraph CodyIn this episode of the SourceForge Podcast, Beyang Liu, CTO & Co-Founder of Sourcegraph, talks about the evolution of their code intelligence platform and its AI-powered coding assistant, Cody. They discuss the challenges developers face with legacy code, the importance of context in coding, and how Sourcegraph aims to make coding accessible to everyone. Beyang shares insights from his professional journey, the competitive landscape of AI coding assistants, and the innovative features that set Cody apart, including its model agnosticism and advanced context retrieval capabilities. In this conversation, Beyang discusses the evolution and future of Sourcegraph, emphasizing the importance of...2024-10-3048 min
From the New World[FIXED] Oliver Giesecke: How do Government Employees Use AI?Find Oliver:https://x.com/og_gieseckehttps://www.olivergiesecke.com/og25@stanford.edu Mentioned in the episode:https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4736003https://papers.olivergiesecke.com/AISurveySlides.pdfhttps://www.recodingamerica.us/ https://www.fromthenew.world/p/beyang-liu-machine-learning-that This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe2024-10-251h 08Building JamLaunching Dev Starter Pack - Live from PodRocketIt’s launch day! Which means… this is not a normal episode! We partnered w/ Cloudflare, LogRocket, Sourcegraph + 6 more awesome devtools to make a 10-tool stack, free for devs to build their ideas. So for today’s episode, we joined some of our friends from Dev Starter Pack on PodRocket, to share the details and behind the scenes of the launch.(00:00) Intros: Beyang (Sourcegraph), Dani (Jam), Matt (LogRocket), Ricky (Cloudflare)(01:33) Dani shares the inspiration for Dev Starter Pack: Cloudflare!(02:34) Sourcegraph’s mission to make it so everyone in the world can code(05:53) How to add and...2024-09-2722 min
PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocketBonus: The Dev Starter Pack with Dani Grant, Beyang Liu, Ricky Robinett, and Matt ArbesfeldIn this special episode of PodRocket introducing the Dev Starter Pack, Matt Arbesfeld, CEO of LogRocket, talks to Dani Grant (CEO of Jam.dev), Ricky Robinett (VP of Developer Relationships at CloudFlare), and Beyang Liu (CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph), about this new alliance of essential development tools designed for next-generation developers building the future of technology.
They talk about the benefits of the stack, insights into each tool provided by the guests, and the potential impact of AI on web development.
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From the New WorldBeyang Liu: Machine Learning That People WantFind Beyang:https://x.com/beyanghttps://sourcegraph.com/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe2024-08-261h 23
High Agency: The Podcast for AI BuildersBuilding an AI coding assistant with Beyang Liu CTO of SourcegraphSourcegraph have built the most popular open source AI coding tool in both the dev community and the Fortune 500. I sat down with Beyang Liu their CTO and cofounder to find out how they did it.We dive into the technical details of Cody's architecture, discussing how Sourcegraph handles the challenges of limited context windows in LLMs, why they don't use embeddings in their RAG system, and the importance of starting with the simplest approach before adding complexity.We also touch on the future of software engineering, open-source vs closed LLM models and what areas...2024-06-1851 min
High Agency: The Podcast for AI BuildersWelcome to the High Agency podcast!Welcome to very first episode of the High Agency podcast! High Agency is a new podcast from Humanloop.Every week, I (Raza Habib) will interview leaders from companies, who have already succeeded with AI in production. We'll share their stories, lessons and playbooks to help you build with LLMs more quickly and with confidence.To get notified of the first episodes with Cai Gogwilt or Ironclad, Bryan Bishof of Hex, Beyang Liu of Sourcegraph and Wade Foster of Zapier please subscribe on youtube, spotify or apple podcasts! (just search for High Agency podcast)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2024-06-0402 min
Unsupervised LearningEp 33: CTO and Co-Founder of Sourcegraph on Current Landscape and Future of Software Development, How to Make RAG Better, and Building Towards the Agentic FutureOn this week’s Unsupervised Learning, Pat and I sat down with CTO and Co-Founder of Sourcegraph, Beyang Liu. Sourcegraph is a leader in the AI coding space, and recently launched AI coding assistant, Cody. Beyang shared with us his view on the current landscape of AI coding and the future of coding and software development. He also shared how Sourcegraph has tried to make RAG better, and their model eval approaches. (0:00) intro(0:47) advice for young coders(3:34) AI products at Sourcegraph(6:17) the current state of AI coding(12:33) what happens when a new...2024-04-301h 36
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | StartupsCoding in Collaboration with AI with Sourcegraph CTO Beyang LiuCoding in collaboration with AI can reduce human toil in the software development process and lead to more accurate and less tedious work for coding teams. This week on No Priors, Sarah talked with Beyang Liu, the cofounder and CTO of Sourcegraph, which builds tools that help developers innovate faster. Their most recent launch was an AI coding assistant called Cody. Beyang has spent his entire career thinking about how humans can work in conjunction with AI to write better code.Sarah and Beyang talk about how Sourcegraph is thinking about augmenting the coding...2024-01-1846 min
mbanerjeepalmer+listennotes 's Listen LaterThe "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph Podcast: Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraphPub date: 2023-12-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe are running an end of year survey for our listeners. Let us know any feedback you have for us, what episodes resonated with you the most, and guest requests for 2024! RAG has emerged as one of the key pieces of the AI Engineer stack. Jerry from...2024-01-121h 19
Latent Space: The AI Engineer PodcastThe "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraphWe are running an end of year survey for our listeners. Let us know any feedback you have for us, what episodes resonated with you the most, and guest requests for 2024! RAG has emerged as one of the key pieces of the AI Engineer stack. Jerry from LlamaIndex called it a “hack”, Bryan from Hex compared it to “a recommendation system from LLMs”, and even LangChain started with it. RAG is crucial in any AI coding workflow. We talked about context quality for code in our Phind episode. Today’s guests, Beyang Liu and Steve Yegge from...2023-12-141h 19
MLOps.communityBuilding Cody, an Open Source AI Coding Assistant // Beyang Liu // MLOps Podcast #173MLOps Coffee Sessions #173 with Beyang Liu, Building Cody, an Open Source AI Coding Assistant.
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Root about the development of Cody, an open-source AI coding assistant. Cody empowers developers to query and comprehend code within codebases through the integration of robust language model capabilities. Sourcegraph tackles the intricacies of understanding intricate codebases by creating comprehensive code maps and employing AI for advanced search functionalities. Cody harnesses the potential of AI to offer...2023-08-291h 02Changelog InterviewsANTHOLOGY — Open source AIThis week on The Changelog we’re taking you to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Beyang Liu (Co-founder and CTO at Sourcegraph), Denny Lee (Developer Advocate at Databricks), and Stella Biderman (Executive Director and Head of Research at EleutherAI).
Special thanks to our friends at GitHub for sponsoring us to attend this conference as part of Maintainer Month.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 3 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today...2023-05-241h 38Changelog Master FeedANTHOLOGY — Open source AI (Changelog Interviews #541)This week on The Changelog we’re taking you to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Beyang Liu (Co-founder and CTO at Sourcegrpah), Denny Lee (Developer Advocate at Databricks), and Stella Biderman (Executive Director and Head of Research at EleutherAI).
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Changelog++ members get a bonus 3 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join t...2023-05-241h 38The Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceANTHOLOGY — Open source AI (Interview)This week on The Changelog we’re taking you to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Beyang Liu (Co-founder and CTO at Sourcegraph), Denny Lee (Developer Advocate at Databricks), and Stella Biderman (Executive Director and Head of Research at EleutherAI).
Special thanks to our friends at GitHub for sponsoring us to attend this conference as part of Maintainer Month.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 3 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today...2023-05-241h 38
a16z PodcastEmbedding AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking2022 was a breakout year for AI. While machine learning had already been integrated into applications for millions of users, for many, these tools still felt like their first real-world encounter with AI.As AI continues to revolutionize industries, CEOs are discussing how to integrate this new superpower. They are also considering important questions around data privacy, competition, cost, accuracy, and speed.In today's episode, we talk with Cresta, Hex, and Sourcegraph, three companies at the forefront of integrating AI into their existing products. From navigating data privacy concerns to optimizing accuracy and managing costs, these...2023-05-1536 min
Latent Space: The AI Engineer PodcastSegment Anything Model and the Hard Problems of Computer Vision — with Joseph Nelson of Roboflow2023 is the year of Multimodal AI, and Latent Space is going multimodal too! * This podcast comes with a video demo at the 1hr mark and it’s a good excuse to launch our YouTube - please subscribe! * We are also holding two events in San Francisco — the first AI | UX meetup next week (already full; we’ll send a recap here on the newsletter) and Latent Space Liftoff Day on May 4th (signup here; but get in touch if you have a high profile launch you’d like to make). * We also joined the Chro...2023-04-131h 19
The Sourcegraph PodcastSamuel Colvin, Founder and Lead Maintainer of PydanticPydantic is a Python library for typed validation of external data that has experienced exponential growth since 2020. We’ll hear the story of what motivated Samuel to create Pydantic, the most common ways people use it, and the success and growth of FastAPI with Pydantic. Also, Pydantic V2 has not been released yet, but we’ll learn what motivated Samuel to rewrite it in Rust, besides being faster and some other things happening with it. And if you’re interested, Samuel is always looking for contributors to Pydantic! Go ahead and download this episode now to hear more! High...2023-03-2039 min
The Sourcegraph PodcastDaniel Stenberg, Founder & Lead Developer of cURLIn this episode, we are honored to have Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of cURL, as our guest. cURL is a ubiquitous data transfer utility that grew into a robust library used in billions of applications worldwide. Daniel is a Swedish developer who has been involved in open source for decades. He is also the recipient of the Polhem Prize 2017 for his work on cURL. Join us as we talk to Daniel about his journey with cURL, his passion for open source, and everything in between.2023-02-1458 min
The Sourcegraph PodcastJason Warner, Managing Director of Redpoint Ventures2022-10-2554 min
Open||Source||DataCode Intelligence, GraphQL, and Closing the Remediation Gap with Beyang LiuThis episode features an interview with Beyang Liu, CTO and Co-founder of Sourcegraph, a code intelligence platform. Prior to Sourcegraph, Beyang was a software engineer at Palantir Technologies, where he developed new data analysis software on a customer-facing team working with Fortune 500 companies. Beyang studied Computer Science at Stanford, where he published research in probabilistic graphical models and computer vision at the Stanford AI Lab.In this episode, Sam sits down with Beyang to discuss the power of intelligence and visualization, GraphQL versus REST API, and how Sourcegraph is drawing inspiration from Google.-------------------2022-10-1234 min
The Sourcegraph PodcastJean Yang, Founder and CEO of Akita Software2022-08-2351 min
The Sourcegraph PodcastAdam Berry, Senior Staff Engineer at Amplitude2022-08-0355 min
The Sourcegraph PodcastJohn Kodumal, CTO and Co-founder of LaunchDarklyBeyang sits down with John Kodumal, CTO and co-founder of LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is a SaaS feature management platform for developers that allows them to iterate and get code into production quickly and safely by separating feature rollout and code deployment. John begins by talking about his first experiences with computers and programing in the 80s, including teaching himself to us a Dvorak keyboard in the first grade, experimenting with BBS in elementary school, and programming his TI-92 in BASIC to make a shell program so that he could use Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) on it in high s...2022-07-141h 02
The Sourcegraph PodcastRavi Parikh, Founder and CEO of AirplaneBeyang talks with Ravi Parikh, founder and CEO of Airplane. Airplane is a developer tool for turning one-off scripts into internal mini-apps that can be used by technical and non-technical users across the company.Ravi shares his journey as a programmer, how he got into computers at a young age, took a brief detour to become a professional musician, and then started his first software company, Heap Analytics, with his friend Matin Movassate. Beyang and Ravi discuss what took Heap from idea to billion dollar company. Ravi discusses founder-led support and the ways he and Matin managed...2022-06-031h 01
The Sourcegraph PodcastMax Howell, creator of Homebrew and founder of teaBeyang talks with Max Howell, creator of Homebrew, about his new package manager, Tea, which aims to solve the problem of open-source funding.Max shares his beginnings in programming and what led him to work on early music players in Linux, Last.fm, and eventually get into Mac development. Max discusses the frustrations he experienced in cross-platform development that were the impetus for the creation of Homebrew and explains how Homebrew became the de facto package manager for macOS.Max talks about his latest project, Tea, a successor to Homebrew that aims to solve the...2022-05-191h 11
The Sourcegraph PodcastCreating one CI to rule them all, with Fedor Korotkov, founder and CTO of Cirrus LabsWhy can’t one CI scale alongside a company–from startup to enterprise? In this episode, Fedor Korotkov, founder and CTO of CirrusLabs, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to talk about how, as a student back in 2009, he developed a photo app that earned him almost $2,000 a month, share the time he applied to be an intern at Twitter but ended up with a full-time job, and explain how six months of “funemployment” led to the building and founding of Cirrus CI–the one CI to rule them all. Along the way, Fedor explains how Cirrus CI, with K...2022-03-211h 08
The Sourcegraph PodcastChanging the web one tool at a time, with Kelly Norton, principal software engineer at Mailchimp and creator of HoundWhy is the software industry now willing and excited to buy developer tools instead of building them internally? In this episode, Kelly Norton, principal software engineer at Mailchimp and creator of open-source code search engine Hound, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to talk about his work on the controversial project that would become Google Web Toolkit, share his experience trying to build an ecosystem of tooling, which resulted in Google Dart, and explain how the company he founded, FullStory, pioneered user testing. Along the way, Kelly describes how and why he developed Hound at Etsy and...2022-03-011h 10
The Sourcegraph PodcastBuilding the code editor dreams are made of, with Max Brunsfeld, co-founder of ZedWhy should programmers treat programming like a craft? In this episode, Max Brunsfeld, co-founder of Zed, a collaborative code editor written in Rust, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to share the apprenticeship-like pair-programming experience that taught him to appreciate programming, explain how he learned the fundamentals of parsing on the weekends and tell the story of presenting an application he couldn’t explain to Paul Graham at Y Combinator. Along the way, Max describes how the Zed team passes off in-progress branches to teammates in other countries and keeps development moving across time zones.Sh...2022-02-151h 10
The Swyx MixtapeGetting rejected, then hired, by Elon Musk + The Future of Serverless Databases [Sugu Sougoumarane, CTO Planetscale]Listen to the Sourcegraph podcast: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/sugu-sougoumarane/https://twitter.com/ssougouhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sugu-sougoumarane-b9bb25/Consensus Algorithms at ScaleTranscriptBeyang Liu:Yeah, tell us that story. What happened between you and Elon Musk?Sugu Sougoumarane:So, this was 2000. Elon had just founded X.com. He had sold off Zip2, which was his previous company, and he was considered one of those up and coming entrepreneurs. He wasn’t as popular as he is today. But when I re...2022-01-1919 min
The Sourcegraph PodcastCreating the GitHub of databases, with Sugu Sougoumarane, co-founder and CTO of PlanetScaleWhy is using PlanetScale a mind-altering experience? In this episode, Sugu Sougoumarane, co-founder and CTO of PlanetScale, shares how one email got him a second job interview with Elon Musk, tells the story of how he became one of the elite engineers at Paypal by solving the company’s most painful process, and explains why database administrators are shifting from managing machines to managing fleets of machines. Along the way, Sougoumarane explains why so many developers have told him they’ve felt like they’ve waited their whole lives for self-serve schema deployment.Show notes & transcript: https://about...2022-01-181h 12
The Sourcegraph PodcastDisassembling and building developer tools, with Nelson Elhage, creator of open source code search engine LivegrepWhy is a systems engineering mindset essential for a scaling startup? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Nelson Elhage, creator of the open source code search engine Livegrep, co-creator of the Ruby type checker Sorbet, and Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to discuss how Rust is changing the security landscape, explain why Patrick McKenzie, better known as patio11, called his live code search tool “miraculous,” and dive deep into the weeds on the differences between trigram- and suffix-array-based search systems. Along the way, Elhage explains why developer productivity is nonl...2022-01-041h 19
The Sourcegraph PodcastBuilding technical communities, with Swyx, Head of Developer Experience at TemporalWhy is building a technical community the most effective moat out there for startups? In this episode, swyx, who runs DevRel at Temporal and co-founded the Svelte Society, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to discuss the stress-induced heart palpitations that led him to transition from finance to tech, show how you can harness a willingness to look stupid to become a standout member of your community, and explain why every book should come with a Discord. Along the way, swyx shares some of the ways learning in public has changed his life, including how one blog...2021-12-141h 15
The Sourcegraph PodcastArming the rebels of the metaverse, with Joseph Nelson, CEO and co-founder of RoboflowWhen, and how, will computer vision and machine learning revolutionize the world? In this episode of the Sourceraph Podcast, Joseph Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Roboflow, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to discuss how Joseph got started in programming (developing a joke generator for a graphing calculator), to share his experience working as a human Google alert for the United States Congress, and to explain why he finds building developer tools so empowering. Along the way, Joseph explains why he thinks machine learning and computer vision will have greater effects than the Internet and the mobile...2021-11-221h 26
The Sourcegraph PodcastPioneering the developer advocate role, with Cassidy Williams, Director of Developer Experience at NetlifyHow can you build a following, and a career, with memes? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Cassidy Williams, Director of Developer Experience at Netlify, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to discuss why we should consider communication a core skill instead of a soft skill, why you should be a developer advocate or a software engineer but not both, and why, when learning React, you should start with the fundamentals. Along the way, Cassidy shares stories about the job she held the longest (mascot for Iowa State), positive and negative experiences from the heyday of...2021-11-171h 10
The Sourcegraph PodcastBuilding the foundation of code search with Han-Wen Nienhuys, creator of ZoektHow do Google developers create and popularize internal tools? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Han-Wen Nienhuys, creator of the open-source code search engine Zoekt, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to discuss the agonizing experience with Perforce that drove Han-Wen to build his first dev tool, explain the value of coding on trains and planes, and share the story of how building code search nearly inspired a street named after him in Sweden. Along the way, Han-Wen offers an inside look at the history behind some of Google’s most famous dev tools, such as Bl...2021-11-091h 07
The Sourcegraph PodcastTaking the warts off C, with Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig Software FoundationHow do you improve on C? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig programming language and the founder and president of the Zig Software Foundation, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph and special guest Stephen Gutekanst, software engineer at Sourcegraph, to talk about what it takes to create a new programming language. Along the way, Andrew shares how programmers can get funding for their side projects and hobbies, why conditional compilation exposes philosophical differences between Zig and C, and explains why and how Zig can be faster than both C and...2021-10-191h 12
The Sourcegraph PodcastMaking security more accessible for developers, with Sam Scott, co-founder and CTO of OsoHow do you make security, a topic that often requires a PhD to understand, accessible to your average developer? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Sam Scott, co-founder and CTO of Oso, a batteries-included library for building authorization into your application, comes on the podcast to explain to Beyang Liu, CTO at Sourcegraph, his vision for the future of security development. Along the way, Sam also shares how he got started in cryptography, explains why they pivoted Oso from infrastructure to application authorization, and shows Beyang how you can use Oso to build an authorization model with just 26...2021-10-121h 27
The Sourcegraph PodcastRedesigning the future of feature flags, with Ivar Østhus and Egil Østhus, co-founders of UnleashWhat’s the future of feature flags? On this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Brothers Ivar Østhus and Egil Østhus, co-founders of Unleash, join Sourcegraph co-founder and CTO Beyang Liu to discuss their open source project and open core company. In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Ivar and Egil talk about their histories in programming and open source, share the inspiration for turning a side project into a full-time job, and dissect the current state, as well as the future of, the feature flag market. Along the way, Ivar and Egil share an intimate look at their growing comp...2021-09-301h 11
The Sourcegraph PodcastDesigning delightful docs, with Orta Therox, TypeScript Compiler Engineer at MicrosoftHow do you design software docs and websites that both intrigue and educate? As a contributor to popular projects like React Native, Jest, Prettier, and TypeScript, Orta Therox has prioritized design for visual engagement, accessibility, and learning. In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Orta talks about the importance of engaging docs, how experimentation fuels learning and engineering in TypeScript, and how developers can write better code examples with Shiki Twoslash, a project he developed and designed. Along the way, Orta also shares his own story of getting into code and the odd way he was hired on Microsoft's...2021-09-141h 07The Swyx MixtapeReact Native's Near Death Experience [Christopher Chedeau]Listen to the Sourcegraph podcast: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/christopher-chedeau/ (~28mins in)Lessons learned:Hackathon is important for intrapreneurshipNear Death moment requires leap of faithSolve People Problems with Technology, not just technology problemsTranscript [00:00:00] swyx: I'm continuing my exploration of how technologies get adopted. And recently there was a really good interview of Christopher shadow by Beyang Liu on the source graph podcast. So I really had to feature it. this tells the story of the invention and adoption of react native internally within Facebook. And the context to this i...2021-09-0912 min
The Sourcegraph PodcastConnecting the right ideas with the right people, with Christopher Chedeau, creator of Excalidraw, co-creator of React NativeOn the eve of the pandemic, Christopher Chedeau was procrastinating performance reviews at Facebook and decided to hack together a simple drawing app. That weekend project became Excalidraw, an open-source virtual whiteboard so popular that its users have basically demanded a startup form around it so that they can bring it to work. In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Christopher tells the backstory of Excalidraw's meteoric rise, as well as his story of joining Facebook and coming to America, and tales from the early days of React and how React Native was born.Show notes & transcript...2021-08-311h 02
The Sourcegraph PodcastDecomposing a massive Rails monolith with Kirsten Westeinde, software development manager at ShopifyWhat’s it like to deconstruct one of the largest Rails codebases (3 million lines of code, 500,000+ lifetime commits, 40,000 files) on the planet? And why didn’t Shopify follow the standard path to microservices, but instead chose to modularize their monolith? In this episode, Kirsten Westeinde, software development manager at Shopify, describes how her team led the charge in refactoring and re-architecting Shopify's massive codebase, sharing the winding path they took to make this massive change and the way they tackled both the technical and human side of this challenge.Show notes & transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/refa...2021-08-1751 min
The Sourcegraph PodcastThe future of the code economy, with Devon Zuegel, creator of GitHub SponsorsDevon Zuegel, the creator of GitHub Sponsors, tells the story of how an email rant to Nat Friedman on the eve of Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub turned into the most popular way to fund open source. She also shares her thoughts on different models of paying for software and where the future of the code economy is headed.Show notes & transcript: about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/devon-zuegel/Sourcegraph: about.sourcegraph.com2021-08-051h 12The Sourcegraph PodcastDeveloper Onboarding Part 3: Jean du Plessis, Director of Engineering, SourcegraphFor the final segment of our three-part series on developer onboarding, we chat with our very own Jean du Plessis, director of engineering at Sourcegraph. Jean talks about the role checklists can play in onboarding, why context is king for coders, how to facilitate context transfer, and how software engineering can seem like one part adventure, one part archeology. We also touch on the topic of continuous onboarding, and how it relates to general developer productivity. 2021-07-1423 min