The pain of code review: how different teams manage, scale, and perform code reviews
We invited ten developers from leading tech startups around the Bay Area to join us for an "off-the-record" dinner to discuss the practice of code review.

We invited ten developers from leading tech startups around the Bay Area to join us for an "off-the-record" dinner to discuss the practice of code review.
We invited ten developers from leading tech startups around the Bay Area to join us for an "off-the-record" dinner to discuss the practice of code review (and what we want in an ideal code review process). Below is a wrap-up of the salient points from our dinner. Given the off-the-record nature of this discussion, we have removed any mention of proprietary processes, repositories, or code examples.
Update, 11/1/2016: The Sourcegraph browser extension now provides tooltips and go to definition on pull requests for all Go, TypeScript, and JavaScript repositories.
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Key takeaway: the code review process is still very labor-intensive and performed manually, even though tools for other parts of the development process (like continuous integration) are more automated.
Key insights:
Key takeaway: as engineering teams scale, the code review process gets more involved and less nimble due to the limitations of current code review tools.
Key insights:
Key takeaway: the next evolution of code review tools should include more automated features that work at scale across different teams.
We asked each person to share what their "ideal code review tool" might look like. Here's what we heard.
Key insights:
Quinn Slack is the CEO and co-founder of Sourcegraph, the code intelligence platform for dev teams and making coding more accessible to more people. Prior to Sourcegraph, Quinn co-founded Blend Labs, an enterprise technology company dedicated to improving home lending and was an egineer at Palantir, where he created a technology platform to help two of the top five U.S. banks recover from the housing crisis. Quinn has a BS in Computer Science from Stanford, you can chat with him on Twitter @sqs.

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