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Introducing Jimy

We are excited to introduce Jimy - the agentic AI to build better software. Jimy integrates seamlessly across the entire software lifecycle and enables engineering teams to focus on delivering features rather than paying down technical debt. Technica...

Automating code migrations with speed and accuracy

Migrating old code to new systems isn't just about keeping up with industry trends — it’s about making sure your software stays efficient, scalable, and secure. Code migrations also yield second order benefits, such as cost efficiency and improved de...

Gitar Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Compliance: Strengthening Our Commitment to Security

We are excited to announce that Gitar has officially achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification! This milestone reinforces our dedication to maintaining the highest standards of data security, privacy, and operational excellence. SOC 2 Type 2 compliance is ...

How to develop comprehensive testing infrastructure

At Gitar, we rely on a comprehensive testing infrastructure to move quickly and with high quality. The core of our initial product is a code analysis and rewrite engine that works across programming languages and frameworks. This is challenging becau...

Dead Code, Dead Weight: The Unseen Drain on Your Resources

In the fast-paced world of software development, dead code is a silent but costly adversary. It’s an insidious form of technical debt that can significantly impact your business’s efficiency, time, and finances. Here’s a closer look at the repercussi...

Gitar’s Early Access Release at LaunchDarkly Galaxy

We’re thrilled to unveil our first product at LaunchDarkly’s Galaxy 2024 user conference where we’ll open up limited early access to Galaxy attendees at Ameya Ketkar’s talk on “Mo’ Flags, No Debt”. You can also see a preview of Gitar’s integration w...

More Feature Flags, Less Tech Debt

At Gitar, we’re getting ready to release our first product that fully automates feature flag removal from code. This product automatically creates Pull Requests that clean up feature flags across major languages. We’re excited about this product beca...

Automated Refactoring at Scale

Our last blog post explored graph-based abstractions for composing lightweight syntactic code transformations and summarized the key research results in our PLDI 2024 paper, “A Lightweight Polyglot Code Transformation Language”. In this post, we turn...

Designing a Lightweight Polyglot Code Transformation Language

We’re thrilled to announce that our paper on lightweight methods for polyglot code transformation has been accepted at PLDI 2024! In this post we’ll walk through the main conceptual insights of the research, and how it will contribute to building bet...