DevCrafter
A powerful tool for tracking GitHub activity across repositories, offering real-time insights into commits, issues, pull requests, and team contributions.
Overview
DevCrafter is the engineering intelligence platform that transforms raw GitHub data into actionable insights. Purpose-built for development teams and engineering managers, it provides a comprehensive view of repository health, team velocity, and code quality metrics—enabling data-driven decisions about processes, resource allocation, and technical investments.
Key results
The Problem
Engineering teams operate with limited visibility into their actual development patterns. GitHub provides raw data, but extracting meaningful insights requires manual effort that few teams have bandwidth for. Questions like "How long do PRs actually sit in review?" or "Which repositories need attention?" remain difficult to answer without dedicated tooling.
Our Solution
DevCrafter continuously syncs with GitHub repositories, processing commits, PRs, issues, and reviews into normalized datasets stored in PostgreSQL via Prisma. Our analytics engine, running on Google Cloud Platform, transforms this data into intuitive dashboards that surface bottlenecks, celebrate wins, and inform strategic decisions.
Challenges We Overcame
GitHub API Rate Limit Management
Implementing intelligent request batching, webhook-based updates, and tiered caching strategies to provide real-time data while respecting GitHub's API constraints across organizations with hundreds of repositories.
Meaningful Metric Design
Developing metrics that capture genuine productivity and code quality without creating perverse incentives—balancing quantitative data with qualitative context.
Multi-Organization Scalability
Architecting a system that handles enterprise customers with thousands of repositories while maintaining sub-second dashboard response times through intelligent data aggregation.
Results & Impact
Key Features
- Real-time GitHub activity feed with smart filtering
- Commit velocity and code churn analytics
- PR lifecycle tracking with review time insights
- Issue backlog health and resolution metrics
- Team contribution heatmaps and collaboration graphs
- Custom alerting for stale PRs and blocked work
- Executive dashboards with trend analysis
What Users Say
DevCrafter gave us visibility we didn't know we were missing. We cut our average PR review time in half within the first month.