Case Study: 1Password increases productivity in a distributed codebase with Sourcegraph

1Password saves 3,900 engineering hours with Sourcegraph

1Password faced a significant challenge as its engineering team and codebase grew rapidly, evolving into over 200 repositories across multiple GitHub and GitLab instances. This code sprawl made it difficult for developers to find and navigate unfamiliar code, slowing them down as they often had to rely on institutional knowledge and interrupt colleagues. To address this, 1Password turned to Sourcegraph for its Code Search and Cody AI assistant solutions.

By implementing Sourcegraph's Code Search, 1Password engineers gained a single place to search across all code hosts, becoming self-sufficient in finding code. The addition of Cody reduced toil by automating tasks like generating unit tests and making complex programmatic changes via natural language. Sourcegraph's tools also championed innersourcing, enabling developers to contribute to any codebase. The results were substantial, with Sourcegraph saving an estimated 7 hours per month for each developer and projecting 3,900 hours of engineering time saved in the first year.

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