Dead Code
Where the Bodies Are Buried (with Kerri Miller)
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Jared talks with Kerri Miller, a Staff Engineer at GitLab, about Keela. It's her new open-source tool that finds unused code in Rails apps, and it's named after a UK police dog known for finding buried bodies. It began about three years ago as an attempt to cut GitLab's CI costs. Kerri didn't want a tool that deletes dead code all at once, so Keela uses regex to snapshot the methods it thinks…