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Podcast Archives - Software Engineering DailyPodcast 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 minSoftware Engineering DailySoftware 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 DailyAll 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 minSoftware Engineering DailySoftware Engineering DailySourcegraph and the Frontier of AI in Software Engineering with Beyang Liu2025-04-0144 minChangelog InterviewsChangelog 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 FeedChangelog 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 SourceThe 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. Join the discussionChan...2025-03-121h 44Building JamBuilding 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 minSourceForge PodcastSourceForge 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 minFrom the New WorldFrom 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 08PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocketPodRocket - 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. Links https://blog.cloudflare.com/launchpad-cohort4-dev-starter-pack/ https://www.producthunt...2024-09-2722 minFrom the New WorldFrom 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 23High Agency: The Podcast for AI BuildersHigh 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 minHigh Agency: The Podcast for AI BuildersHigh 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 minUnsupervised LearningUnsupervised 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 36No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | StartupsNo 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 minmbanerjeepalmer+listennotes \'s Listen Latermbanerjeepalmer+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 19Latent Space: The AI Engineer PodcastLatent 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 19MLOps.communityMLOps.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. We are now accepting talk proposals for our next LLM in Production virtual conference on October 3rd. Apply to speak here: https://go.mlops.community/NSAX1O // Abstract 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 InterviewsChangelog 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 FeedChangelog 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). Special thanks to our friends at GitHub for sponsoring us to attend this conference as part of Maintainer Month. Leave us a comment 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 SourceThe 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 38a16z Podcasta16z 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 minLatent Space: The AI Engineer PodcastLatent 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 19Open||Source||DataOpen||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 minThe Sourcegraph PodcastThe 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 08The Sourcegraph PodcastThe 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 10The Sourcegraph PodcastThe 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 10The Swyx MixtapeThe 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 minThe Sourcegraph PodcastThe 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 19The Sourcegraph PodcastThe 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 15The Sourcegraph PodcastThe 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 26The Sourcegraph PodcastThe 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 10The Sourcegraph PodcastThe 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 07The Sourcegraph PodcastThe 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 12The Sourcegraph PodcastThe 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 27The Sourcegraph PodcastThe 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 11The Swyx MixtapeThe 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 minTech Lead JournalTech Lead Journal#34 - Improving Developers’ Productivity With Universal Code Search and Sourcegraph - Beyang Liu“Developer productivity is not lines of code written. It’s not the number of commits. It has to do with the ultimate problem you’re solving and the users that you’re solving it for." Beyang Liu is the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, a developer tools company that brings universal code search capability for developers. In this episode, Beyang shared with me his perspective about developers’ productivity and how we should go about measuring developers’ productivity, including the danger of measuring productivity by using proxy metrics. We then discussed the rationale for universal code search and why he think...2021-04-121h 00Software at ScaleSoftware at ScaleSoftware at Scale 9 - Beyang Liu: CTO, SourcegraphBeyang Liu is the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, a code search and intelligence tool for developers. He used to be a software engineer at Palantir, and a research assistant at Stanford University.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsHighlights1:00 - The story behind Sourcegraph6:12 - How is Sourcegraph different from a tool like grep (or ripgrep)?14:25 - Social code search via links are a bigger deal than one might imagine17:00 - Engineering challenges in building Sourcegraph. 29:30 - The product feedback loop38:30 - Th...2021-02-151h 22Software Engineering DailySoftware Engineering DailySourceGraph: Code Search and Intelligence with Beyang LiuA large codebase cannot be searched with naive indexing algorithms. In order to search through a codebase the size of Uber’s it is necessary to build a much more sophisticated indexing system than simple pure text search.SourceGraph is a system for universal code search. It allows developers to more easily onboard to a new codebase, make large refactors, and perform other tasks. SourceGraph can integrate with source control systems, IDEs, and other tools to fit comfortably into an engineer’s workflow.Beyang Liu is a co-founder of SourceGraph and he joins the show to t...2020-07-2255 minCode[ish]Code[ish]33. GopherCon 2019 Spotlight, Part 2Aaron Schlesinger is the core maintainer on Athens, an open source on-prem module proxy. He walks through the history of packages and modules in Go, and introduces how Athens satisfies the needs of developers. Go modules allow you to serve up a Go project's dependencies via an API; Athens implements that API--and integrates with other implementations of the API as well--to simplify dependency management, no matter where the code is stored. Beyang Liu is the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, a company that focuses on developer tools. They use Go to build high-performance code search, code...2019-09-0518 minChangelog InterviewsChangelog InterviewsSourcegraph the 'Google for Code'Beyang Liu, the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joined the show to talk about the backstory of Sourcegraph, how it works, how they’re aiming to be the ‘Google for Code’, ideas around offline support for code search, how it’s licensed, and their new software license called Fair Source. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice! We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code changelog2017 to get 2 months fre...2016-08-261h 30Changelog Master FeedChangelog Master FeedSourcegraph the 'Google for Code' (The Changelog #217)Beyang Liu, the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joined the show to talk about the backstory of Sourcegraph, how it works, how they’re aiming to be the ‘Google for Code’, ideas around offline support for code search, how it’s licensed, and their new software license called Fair Source.2016-08-2600 minThe Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceThe Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceSourcegraph the 'Google for Code' (Interview)Beyang Liu, the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, joined the show to talk about the backstory of Sourcegraph, how it works, how they’re aiming to be the ‘Google for Code’, ideas around offline support for code search, how it’s licensed, and their new software license called Fair Source. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice! We host everything we do on Linode servers. Use the code changelog2017 to get 2 months fre...2016-08-261h 30Go Time: Golang, Software EngineeringGo Time: Golang, Software EngineeringBeyang Liu on Go at Sourcegraph and Writing Better CodeBeyang Liu from Sourcegraph joins the show to talk about Go at Sourcegraph and their code insight and language analysis tools for writing better code. We also get an understanding of what Sourcegraph is and the many ways to integrate it into your workflow. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months fr...2016-08-1052 minChangelog Master FeedChangelog Master FeedBeyang Liu on Go at Sourcegraph and Writing Better Code (Go Time #12)Beyang Liu from Sourcegraph joins the show to talk about Go at Sourcegraph and their code insight and language analysis tools for writing better code. We also get an understanding of what Sourcegraph is and the many ways to integrate it into your workflow.2016-08-1000 min