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GitHub claims source code search engine is a game changer
- amrb 4y agoWe've had YARA Rules in cyber-security for abit, will be interested to try this out as it seems more human focused.
- matt_heimer 4y agoArticle summary: Grep is too slow for a search engine, ElasticSearch didn't work, they are using indexes and sharding. A better starting point if you are interested seems to be https://github.blog/2023-02-06-the-technology-behind-githubs-new-code-search/ https://github.blog/2023-02-06-the-technology-behind-githubs...
- alimbada 4y ago> A better starting point if you are interested seems to be https://github.blog/2023-02-06-the-technology-behind-githubs https://github.blog/2023-02-06-the-technology-behind-githubs... Thank you. Anything is better than a snarky Register article. I've avoided them like the plague for years now.
- l0b0 4y agoI can see how it would be, since they utterly broke their main search. I tried searching for something simple in a single org yesterday, and I kept getting different numbers of results when refreshing, anything from 8 to 50+.