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We rebuilt GitHub Issues search to make it faster, more flexible, and now powerful with nested queries and boolean operators! 🔎 Take a look at the engineering behind this revamp and then try out the advanced search syntax for yourself to find exactly what you need. ⬇️

github.blogGitHub Issues search now supports nested queries and boolean operators: Here's how we (re)built itBuilding this feature presented significant challenges. We're excited to take you behind the scenes.

This is a great writeup. I especially like how the team tested the new algorithm on live user activity while still delivering the results of the original algorithm. That's a good way to test the rollout when you want to maintain backward compatibility.

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