flatbuffers — Engineering Performance
2 engineers all time · Feb 2025 – May 2026 · built 2026-09-08 · GitHub
Performance snapshot
Today's rolling 90-day reading for flatbuffers, compared with the start of the series. Pick a window to move that comparison point.
Avg. perf / dev / mo
−100.0%
1.09 → 0.00 ETV
Active engineers
−100.0%
1.0 → 0.0
Features
−37.3pp
37.3% → 0.0%
Performance Composition
Each month's output split by type of work: Features (new value), Maintenance (sustaining systems), Tests, Docs, and Fixes (rework). The yellow line is output per engineer, so when it rises each engineer is delivering more, whatever the team size did. Unit: Engineering Throughput Value (ETV).
Engineering capacity
Effective engineers behind flatbuffers, against its pre-AI baseline. Each subject has its own: flatbuffers's is 0.86 ETV / dev / mo, its first reading in May 2025. Per-engineer ETV divided by that gives a capacity multiple, and that multiple applied to the engineers active in the trailing 90 days turns it into engineer-equivalents. The line is the real headcount, so the gap between line and area is what the leverage is worth. Because each baseline is its own, every subject opens at 1.0x on its first day: multiples measure improvement and are not comparable between subjects.
Knowledge concentration
How dependent is this repo on a small number of engineers? Higher top-1 share = higher key-person risk.
mustiikhalil owns 53.7 % of commits.
Behind the numbers
Written summary of the work completed each month.
No monthly reports available yet.
Top engineers
Most impactful commits
Top 10 by ETV in the all-time window.
- 3.3ETV[Swift] Adds new API to reduce memory copying within swift (#8484) * Adds new API to reduce memory copying within swift Adds new storage container _InternalByteBuffer which will be holding the data that will be created within the swift lib, however reading data will be redirected to ByteBuffer, which should be able to handle all types of data that swift provide without the need to copy the data itself. This is due to holding a reference to the data. Replaces assumingMemoryBinding with bindMemory which is safer Adds function that provides access to a UnsafeBufferPointer for scalars and NativeStructs within swift Updates docs Suppress compilation warnings by replacing var with let Using overflow operators within swift to improve performance Adds tests for GRPC message creation from a retained _InternalByteBuffermustiikhalil · bd1b2d0b · 2025-03-18
- 2.6ETV[Swift] Flexbuffers native swift port (#8577) * Offical Swift port for FlexBuffers This is the offical port for FlexBuffers within swift, and it introcudes a Common Module where code is shared between flatbuffers and flexbuffers. Writing most supported values like maps, vectors, nil and scalars into a flexbuffer buffer. And includes tests to verify that its similar to cpp * Reading a flexbuffer Implementing reading from a flexbuffer, enabling most of the buffers features, like most types, maps, vectors, typedvectors, and fixedtypedvectors. Currently, if an offset/object cant be read we default to a swift nil instead of the default flexbuffers 'null' with all values. * Fixes bazel breaking due to new project structure Address warnings within the library * Adds comment on why we added the code & properly enforce the amout of bytes neededmustiikhalil · 5a95b7b6 · 2025-06-22
- 2.5ETV[Swift] Migrate to use Swift Testing (#9076) * Migrating from Xctests to swift testing This migrates to the new Swift testing framework, which would allow us to always use the latest tech from swift moving forward. * Updates flag to make sure that Wasm testing worksmustiikhalil · 39216543 · 2026-05-08
- 2.3ETV[Swift] Inline arrays (#8755) Implements InlineArrays which allow us to use Flatbuffers arrays within Structs natively, and also implements FlatbufferVectors as a secondary API when using mutable Structs Fixes mutations within fixed sizes arrays Adds tests and remove inout and mutating from generated objects in favor of borrowing --------- Co-authored-by: Wouter van Oortmerssen <aardappel@gmail.com>mustiikhalil · cbf08508 · 2025-11-14
- 1.5ETV[Swift] Migrate to swift 6.0 and Implements support gRPC v2 (#8983) * Migrate to swift 6.0 & swift-gRPC 2.0 The following migrates to swift 6.0, and also migrate to swift-grpc 2.0 that uses swift-nio under the hood to provide nicer API and async await Adds sendable to enum & update @_implementationOnly imports to use internal imports * Address PR comments regarding misspelling & proper method naming.mustiikhalil · e6bbb3d2 · 2026-05-06
- 1.1ETVBugfix __eq__ for numpy data types (#8646) * [Python] Sync PythonTest.sh flags with generate_code.py * [Python] Update generated code to latest flatc version for tests * [Python] Fix test support for numpy newer than 2.0.0 * [Python] Remove unused variable * [Python] Fix __eq__ for numpy arrays * [Python] Run clang-format over the entire fileFelix · f32a7dcb · 2025-07-26
- 0.5ETVMoves away from @_exported import to add the import in the generated code (#8637)mustiikhalil · 07c2eb5f · 2025-07-16
- 0.5ETVBugfix: grpc python code generation location and file suffix (#8359) * clang-format * [Python] Replace . with _ in grpc filename suffix Having filenames with . like `file.fb.grcp` is not great for Python. Since dots are used for namespaces. Replacing all of them with _ eg suffix `foo.bar.baz` will become `foo_bar_baz`. Restoring the previous default `_fb` suffix. * [Python] Use namespace in path This fixes a regression introduced with: fb9afbafc7dfe226b9db54d4923bfb8839635274 And generates the grpc file in the namespace folder again. * Sync commandline docs with web docsFelix · 31beb0fb · 2025-06-25
- 0.4ETV[Swift] Moves capacity outside of Storage (#8650) - Cleans up capacity usage within the lib and moves it outside of the Storage - Use overflow operatorsmustiikhalil · 575d616e · 2025-07-29
- 0.3ETV[Python] Avoid include own type (#8625) This prevents the include of the type defined in the pyi, otherwise this leads to error message like this: error: Name XYZ already defined (possibly by an import) [no-redef]Felix · c7b9dc83 · 2025-07-15