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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
At Gitar, we are building a complex, rapidly-evolving application with Rust as a core part of our tech stack. As our engineering team scales, ensuring safe and efficient database access across our codebase has become a critical challenge. In this pos...
Modern code refactoring tools need to support refactors that span multiple programming languages. Today’s applications are polyglot – built using multiple programming languages. This means code refactors such as stale feature flag cleanup often invol...
This is Part II of our series of posts on retrofitting null safety onto existing programming languages. In Part I of this series, we introduced NullAway, a pluggable type system for nullability for Java, which can prevent NullPointerException (NPE) c...
As developers, we have all been there. Staring at an unsavory piece of code, we decide to refactor and clean things up a bit. This leads to hours of followup changes to make the code compile and run tests successfully. Sometimes, this can also happen...
In our previous blog post, we demonstrated the advantages of Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO), highlighting a 10-30% decrease in end-user latency and datacenter cost for server applications without requiring the developer to change source code or ev...
This post provides a gentle introduction to both NullAway - an open-source tool to prevent null pointer exceptions in Java - as well as pluggable type systems for nullability in general. It is meant to be the first in a series of posts describing mul...
Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) automatically boosts application performance by using runtime profiling data to guide compiler optimizations. By focusing and tailoring the compiler’s optimizations to hot code paths, PGO can reduce both end-user lat...
Today feature flags are ubiquitously used by software developers. While feature flags supercharge your development process, if poorly managed they could put you out of business! Feature flags, also known as feature toggles (or gates), are the modern ...
Act I: Let the journey begin Very early in my professional career, I learnt that build speeds were important to feel productive. I also learnt that exploiting parallelism is often the easiest path to improve build times. My first introduction to any ...
At Gitar, we’re building the modern software development platform – tools that offer a magical developer experience supercharged by advanced code analysis and AI. We enable efficient and reliable development at scale, empowering developers to do the ...
