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 ...
