Engineering at GitGuardian: Our Technical Challenges for 2026
At GitGuardian, we protect millions of developers from one of the most common, yet dangerous security mistakes: accidentally exposing secrets in code.
OpenClaw (Moltbot) Personal Assistant Goes Viral – And So Do Your Secrets
Early 2026, Moltbot a new AI personal assistant went viral. GitGuardian detected 200+ leaked secrets related to it, including from healthcare and fintech companies. Our contribution to Moltbot: a skill that turns secret scanning into a conversational prompt, letting users ask "is this safe?"
Demystifying Docker: Understanding and Optimizing Your Images
Everything you were too afraid to ask about Docker, containers, and their fundamental building blocks: layers. Understanding how layers work naturally leads to a more efficient method of packing images, ultimately speeding up your deployments.
A Deep Dive into Celery Task Resilience, Beyond Basic Retries
How to make your Celery tasks more resilient with best practices to prevent workflow interruptions and handle various failure scenarios.
MLOps Done Right: GitGuardian's Battle-Tested Open-Source Stack
Our stack to go from experimenting to production won't have any more secrets for you.
Better Security and Performance For Free? Why PostgreSQL is Amazing
Upgrade your PostgreSQL instance to the newest version with confidence! In this benchmarking blog post, we show you the performance improvements you can expect when upgrading from PostgreSQL 13 to 16.
Year in Review: GitGuardian's Own Security Team
GitGuardian's Lead security engineer, Kayssar Daher, shares his team's successes, challenges, and results of the past year.
Streamlining CLI Authentication: Implementing OAuth Login in Python
When building an application that requires user authentication, implementing a secure login flow is critical. In this article, we'll walk through how we created a robust OAuth login flow for ggshield, our Python-based command line tool, to streamline the onboarding process for our users.
Bringing a Better (and Smarter) Samaritan to Secure the Open Source
GitGuardian's Confidence Scorer, a machine-learning model, is being rolled out. Learn how it advances secret detection on GitHub and drives impactful developer alerts.
Small Team, Big Wins: Why Size Doesn’t Matter for Self-Hosted
Few companies take on the challenge of offering a self-hosted option to their customers. GitGuardian has embraced this endeavor for the past three years, encountering numerous challenges along the way, but also unlocking invaluable benefits.
HasMySecretLeaked - Building a Trustless and Secure Protocol
We can’t see your secrets, but we can tell you if they’ve leaked on GitHub. Here’s how we do it.
Year in Review: GitGuardian's Own Security Team
Join security engineer Kayssar on a captivating journey as he delves into the achievements and challenges encountered by GitGuardian's security team throughout the year. And distills invaluable insights on fostering a culture of security awareness and openness within a rapidly expanding scale-up.
