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\u201cDeveloper productivity is not lines of code written. It\u2019s not the number of commits. It has to do with the ultimate problem you\u2019re solving and the users that you\u2019re solving it for."

Beyang Liu is the CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, a developer tools company that brings universal code search capability for developers. In this episode, Beyang shared with me his perspective about developers\u2019 productivity and how we should go about measuring developers\u2019 productivity, including the danger of measuring productivity by using proxy metrics. We then discussed the rationale for universal code search and why he thinks there is a massive need for it to increase developers\u2019 productivity, borrowing from his experience working at Google, and especially to cope in the current era of \u201cBig Code\u201d. Towards the end, Beyang shared how individuals can improve their personal developer productivity and what the future state of developer tools would look like. Also, listen to some of the Sourcegraph cool use cases that Beyang shared based on the feedback given by his customers.

Listen out for:

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• Career Journey - [00:04:53]
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• Developers Productivity - [00:07:47]
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• Measuring Developers Productivity - [00:12:15]
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• The Danger of Proxy Metrics - [00:16:51]
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• Productivity in Enterprise vs Startup - [00:23:40]
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• Rationale for Code Search - [00:26:54]
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• Code Search Case Studies - [00:33:16]
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• Other Useful Developer Tools - [00:38:32]
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• Ex-Googler\u2019s Guide to Developer Tools - [00:42:20]
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• Improving Personal Developer Productivity - [00:46:07]
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• Future State of Developer Tools - [00:49:32]
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• 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:54:28]
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Beyang Liu\u2019s Bio
\nBeyang is the CTO and cofounder of Sourcegraph, a developer tools company bringing universal code search to every developer in open source and every software organization, including leading companies like Uber, Dropbox, Yelp, PayPal, Cloudflare, and more.

Follow Beyang:

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• Twitter \u2013 https://twitter.com/beyang
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• LinkedIn \u2013 https://www.linkedin.com/in/beyang-liu/
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• Website \u2013 https://beyang.org
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• Sourcegraph \u2013 https://sourcegraph.com/
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