Sourcegraph Explained

Sourcegraph
Type:Private
Industry:Information technology
Founded:2013
Founder:Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu
Products:Cody, Code Search

Sourcegraph Inc. is a company developing code search and code intelligence tool that semantically indexes and analyzes large codebases so that they can be searched across commercial, open-source, local, and cloud-based repositories.[1]

The company has two products available: Cody and Code Search. Code Search was initially released in 2013 under the name Sourcegraph, but was rebranded to Code Search when the company unveiled Cody in 2023. Both products support all major programming languages.[2]

History

Sourcegraph Inc. was founded in by Stanford graduates Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu to drive the development of a code search and code intelligence tool, formerly called Sourcegraph. It was first released in 2013[3] [4] but was rebranded to Code Search in 2023. It was partly inspired by Liu's experience using Google Code Search while he was a Google intern,[5] It was designed to "tackle the big code problem" by enabling developers to manage large codebases that span multiple repositories, programming languages, file formats, and projects.[6]

Code Search was initially self-hosted by each customer on their own infrastructure.[7] Early customers included Uber, Dropbox, and Lyft.[8] In 2016, Code Search was criticized[9] for being provided with a Fair Source License with the developers explaining[10] [11] that "all of Sourcegraph’s [sic] source code is publicly available and hackable"[12] and was intended to "help open sourcers strike a balance between getting paid and preserving their values".[13] In 2018, Code Search was licensed under the Apache License 2.0,[14] [15] and Sourcegraph OSS has since been released under the Apache License 2.0. The commercial version, Code Search Enterprise, has been released under its own license.[16] In 2023, Code Search was criticized[17] for dropping the Apache license for most of its code, leaving it public but only available under its Enterprise license.[18]

In 2019, Code Search was integrated into the GitLab codebase, giving GitLab users access to a browser-based developer platform.[19] In 2021, a browser-based portal became available, allowing users to browse open-source projects and personal private code for free.In 2022, Sourcegraph Cloud, a commercial single-tenant cloud solution for organizations with more than 100 developers, was launched.[20]

Sourcegraph has raised a total of almost $225 million in financing to date. Its most recent $125 million Series D investment in 2021 valued the company at $2.625 billion, a 300% growth from its previous valuation in 2020.[21]

DateFunding TypeMoney Raised (USD)No. of InvestorsLead Investor
July 2021Series D round125,000,0004Andreessen Horowitz
December 2020Series C round50,000,000[22] 1Sequoia Capital
July 2020Series B round5,000,000[23] 1Felicis Ventures
March 2020Series B round23,000,000[24] 3Craft Ventures
October 2017Series A round20,000,000[25] 3Goldcrest Capital, Redpoint
In 2023 Sourcegraph Inc. unveiled their new product Cody, and rebranded Sourcegraph to Code Search.

Products

The company has two major products: Cody and Code Search.

Sourcegraph Cody

Cody is a free and open-source AI coding assistant that can help users write, fix, and maintain your code. It works by understanding an entire codebase and using that knowledge to provide context-aware assistance. including code generation, debugging, commenting, documentation, explaining, and answering questions regarding the code. Cody is available for Microsoft Visual Studio Code and most JetBrains IDEs.

Sourcegraph Code Search

Code Search
Developer:Sourcegraph, Inc.
Released:2013
Latest Release Version:5.2.0
Latest Release Date:3 October 2023
Repo:https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph
Programming Language:Go, TypeScript
Operating System:Microsoft Windows, Linux, MacOS
Genre:Software intelligence
License:Proprietary

Sourcegraph's "universal code search" tool is used to search, explore, and understand code.[26] supports over 30 programming languages and integrates with GitHub and GitLab for code hosting, Codecov for code coverage, and Jira Software for project management.[27] Code Search can be implemented across multiple repositories and code hosting platforms. Searches can be literal, regular expression, or structural. The structural search syntax is language-aware and handles nested expressions and multi-line statements better than regular expressions. Sourcegraph's Code Search uses a variant of Google's PageRank algorithm to rank results by relevance.[28] Code Search can be used to search and analyze all of an organization's code. During search indexing, the platform builds a global reference graph, that maps an entire codebase and enables functionality such as "go to definition".[29] Features include:

Code search has received adoption by such various sectors as

As of July 2021, Code search customers include Adidas, Lyft, Uber, Yelp, Plaid, GE, Atlassian,[35] Amazon, PayPal, Qualtrics, and Cloudflare.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hoyt . Ben . 2020-08-17 . Searching code with Sourcegraph . 2022-10-03 . LWN.net.
  2. Web site: Announcing Sourcegraph 3.0 . Slack . Quinn . 2019-02-08 . Sourcegraph official website . 2022-11-18.
  3. Web site: Sawers . Paul . 2020-03-03 . Sourcegraph raises $23 million to bring universal code search to all developers . 2022-11-18 . VentureBeat.
  4. Web site: Salter . Jim . 2020-10-01 . Sourcegraph: Devs are managing 100x more code now than they did in 2010 . 2022-11-18 . Ars Technica.
  5. Sourcegraph the 'Google for Code' . Changelog . Adam Stacoviak . 2016-08-16 . 2022-11-21 .
  6. Web site: Sawers . Paul . 2020-12-03 . Sourcegraph raises $50 million to tackle 'big code' problems with universal search . 2022-11-21 . VentureBeat.
  7. Web site: Sawers . Paul . 2021-08-19 . Sourcegraph plans to index the entire open source web . 2022-10-03 . VentureBeat . en-US.
  8. Web site: Sourcegraph Cloud: secure, scalable, dedicated instances for enterprises . Slack . Quinn . 2022-09-27 . 2022-11-21 . Sourcegraph Blog.
  9. Web site: Fair Source licensing is the worst thing to happen to open source-definitely maybe . Asay . Matt . 2016-04-01 . 2022-11-21 . TechRepublic. https://web.archive.org/web/20211107170119/https://www.techrepublic.com/article/fair-source-licensing-is-the-worst-thing-to-happen-to-open-source-definitely-maybe/ . 2021-11-07 .
  10. Nadia . Eghbal . 2016 . Roads and bridges. The Unseen labor behind our digital infrastructure . 94–95 . 2022-12-14.
  11. Web site: Fair Source License . 2022-11-21 . Fair Source License official website.
  12. Web site: The Sourcegraph developer release: A better way to discover and understand code . 2016-05-30 . 2022-11-21 . Sourcegraph Blog . en.
  13. One Startup's Heretical Plan to Turn Open Source Code Into Cash . Finley . Klint . 2016-03-29 . 2022-11-21 . Wired.
  14. Web site: Schmidt . Julia . 2018-10-02 . Sourcegraph pulls back the curtain, becomes open source project . 2022-11-21 . DevClass.
  15. Basic Developer Human Rights: Quinn Slack . Future of Coding . Steve Krouse . 2019-10-24 . 2022-11-21.
  16. Web site: Licensing . 2022-11-21 . Sourcegraph Handbook.
  17. Web site: Seriously, don't sign a CLA . 2023-07-05 . drewdevault.com.
  18. Web site: relicense all paths other than MIT licensed code, client/cody*, jetbr… · sourcegraph/sourcegraph@3cd931e . 2023-07-05 . GitHub . en.
  19. Web site: Native code intelligence is coming to GitLab . 2022-10-03 . GitLab . en.
  20. Web site: Slack . Quinn . 2022-08-27 . Sourcegraph Cloud: secure, scalable, dedicated instances for enterprises . 2022-12-05 . Sourcegraph.
  21. Web site: Miller . Ron . 2021-07-13 . Sourcegraph raises $125M Series D on $2.6B valuation for universal code search tool . 2022-10-03 . TechCrunch . en-US.
  22. Web site: Sawers . Paul . 2020-12-03 . Sourcegraph raises $50 million to tackle 'big code' problems with universal search . 2022-11-21 . VentureBeat.
  23. Web site: 2020-07-15 . Sourcegraph Raises Additional $5M in Series B Funding . 2022-10-03 . FINSMES.
  24. Web site: Sawers . Paul . 2020-03-03 . Sourcegraph raises $23 million to bring universal code search to all developers . 2022-11-18 . VentureBeat.
  25. Web site: 2017-10-06 . Sourcegraph Raises $20M in Series A Funding . 2022-12-05 . FINSMES.
  26. Web site: Liu . Beyang . 2020-01-15 . Sourcegraph: Universal code search and intelligence . InfoWorld . 2022-12-05.
  27. Web site: 2020-04-03 . Q&A: Sourcegraph's Universal Code Search Tool . 2022-10-03 . IEEE Spectrum . en.
  28. Web site: Yegge . Steve . 2022-11-08 . Rethinking search results ranking on Sourcegraph.com . Sourcegraph . 2022-12-06.
  29. Web site: Ramji . Sam . 2022-12-22 . Google That Code: How Sourcegraph Simplifies Development . 2023-02-20 . The New Stack.
  30. Web site: 2021-03-24 . Sourcegraph Batch Changes Offers Automation for Large-Scale Code Changes . 2023-02-08 . Database Trends and Applications . en-US.
  31. Web site: Sawers . Paul . 2022-03-10 . With Code Insights, Sourcegraph gives developers a better understanding of their codebase . 2022-10-03 . VentureBeat . en-US.
  32. MSc . Haavisto . Juuso . 2020 . Leveraging APL and SPIR-V languages to write network functions to be deployed on Vulkan compatible GPUs . Université de Lorraine . 2022-12-15.
  33. Voirin . R. . Vanden Eynden . M. . Oulevey . T. . 2022 . The State of Containerization in CERN Accelerator Controls . JACoW . ICALEPCS . 2021 . 829–834 . 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THBL03 . 2022-12-15.
  34. Book: Rehberger, Johann . Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies: A practical guide to building a penetration testing program having homefield advantage . Packt Publishing Ltd . 2020 . 9781838825508 . 216–224.
  35. Web site: Miller . Ron . 2021-07-13 . Sourcegraph raises $125M Series D on $2.6B valuation for universal code search tool . 2022-10-03 . TechCrunch . en-US.

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