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How teams use codebase intelligence for onboarding, audits, and visibility
Audit a legacy monolith before acquisition with graph, history, wiki, ADRs
Audit legacy code with graph, history, wiki, and ADRs to answer ownership, risk, and rewrite questions before a deal. See 4 layers in one review.
Security review on a Python monolith with 19 hotspots
A security review codebase case study on a Python monolith: find 19 hotspots, map ownership gaps, and cut duplicate reads with one review path.
47 dependents, 23 hotspots: a React refactor without folklore
A large codebase refactor case study: see how dependency graphs, git history, and ownership signals ranked 23 hotspots before the first React edit.
How to Audit a Codebase You've Never Seen Before (in 30 Minutes)
You’ve just been handed a repository with 250,000 lines of code across 1,400 files. You have a meeting with the CTO in an hour to discuss the risks of acquir...
The Engineering Manager's Guide to Codebase Visibility
Most engineering managers operate in a state of perpetual information asymmetry. While you have high-resolution data on sprint velocity, ticket throughput, a...
How to Index a Monorepo: Docs, Graphs, and Ownership at Scale
The monorepo is often the final evolution of a scaling engineering organization. By centralizing codebases, teams solve the 'dependency hell' of micro-repos,...
Open Source Alternative to Enterprise Code Intelligence Tools
Every developer has experienced the 'onboarding wall.' You join a new team, clone a massive mono-repo, and are immediately met with 500,000 lines of code, ze...
What Happens When You Run repowise init on React (847 Files)
Cloning a repository like React is a rite of passage for many engineers. It is the gold standard of modern UI library architecture, but it is also a formidab...