robert lin

In February 2025, Sourcegraph quietly launched the ability to click a few buttons, leave your credit card details, and get the full-fledged Sourcegraph code search experience for yourself and your team.

The advent of LLMs and “AI-enabled” products lead to a rapid pivot within Sourcegraph from a purely single-tenant product, into new product surfaces with managed, multi-tenant components.

As the customer base for Sourcegraph’s “multi-single tenant” Sourcegraph Cloud offering grew, I had the opportunity to join the team to scale out the platform to support the hundreds of instances the company aimed to reach - which it does today!

At Sourcegraph we have a developer tool called sg, which has become the way we ensure the development of tooling continues to scale at Sourcegraph.

Zap is a structured logging library from Uber that is built on top of a “reflection-free, zero-allocation JSON encoder” to achieve some very impressions performance comapred to other popular logging libraries for Go.

Sourcegraph’s continuous integration infrastructure uses Buildkite, a platform for running pipelines on CI agents we operate.

Sourcegraph recently held a brief internal hackathon where we got to work on a variety of ideas related to our freshly minted “Sourcegraph use cases”.

In a rapidly moving organization, documentation drift is inevitable as the underlying tools undergoes changes to suit changing needs, especially for internal tools where leaning on tribal knowledge can often be more efficient in the short term.

As a tool for searching over all your code, accurately mirroring repository permissions defined in the relevant code hosts is a core part of Sourcegraph’s functionality.

With dark mode on every website nowadays, my website seems to have fallen a bit behind the times.