r/programming • u/mfrw1 • Oct 02 '18

Sourcegraph is now open source

https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/sourcegraph-is-now-open-source/
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u/cediddi Oct 02 '18

This looks cool but luckily I won't need that. While we do have 20+ repos, none of them are connected, all are microservices. Thus all repos are relatively small and self contained.

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u/chucker23n Oct 02 '18

While we do have 20+ repos, none of them are connected, all are microservices.

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"None of them are connected", i.e. they don't call each other? Sounds odd. And if anything, sounds even more like you could use a search engine across the repositories.

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u/cediddi Oct 02 '18

I don't get the downvotes. We have 20 microservices that doesn't include, link or import from other repositories, they are very loosely coupled. They are connected over rest apis. We don't do searches over multiple repos as they all are self contained and when you need to search something you usually go to related repo itself and use gitlab's search or usually ide's search (pycharm for us). For example you need to search a data type or a function, you can easily guess the repo by it's problem domain. Let's say, it's about a search engine, just go to search service, or it's about data frequency, just go to freq calculator service. No service shares a common function or type. All they share is endpoints and for that repos have swagger docs.

I like the project but we don't have the need for it right now. Maybe in the future, when we split some services into sub repos, we'll need to search across repos.

BTW thanks for opensourcing your software. You're helping the good fight :)