📅 2025-08-17 — Session: Enhanced GitHub Ingestion with Async Support

🕒 20:00–21:25
🏷️ Labels: Github, Async, Python, Jupyter, Data Ingestion
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to enhance the GitHub data ingestion pipeline by integrating asynchronous processing, improving error handling, and ensuring compatibility with Jupyter notebooks.

Key Activities

  • Integrated GitHub repositories into the existing data ingestion pipeline using a custom Python script.
  • Conducted a smoke test of the GitHub repo ingestion process using an SQLite database.
  • Refactored the ingestion process to separate file conversion to TextNodes from embedding and upserting.
  • Addressed challenges of using asyncio in Jupyter notebooks, providing solutions for async ingestion pipelines.
  • Improved GitHub API token handling and error resilience, specifically for 401 Unauthorized errors.
  • Diagnosed and patched issues in the GitHub repository ingestion process, including commit SHA handling and checkpoint file filtering.
  • Integrated a real embedder and Chroma upsert functionality into the ingestion process.
  • Debugged async functions and GitHub API calls in Jupyter notebooks, using strategies like nest_asyncio.

Achievements

  • Successfully integrated async support for GitHub ingestion in Jupyter environments.
  • Enhanced error handling and resilience in the ingestion pipeline.
  • Improved metadata handling and ensured compatibility with both Jupyter and CLI environments.

Pending Tasks

  • Further testing of the integrated async ingestion process in diverse environments.
  • Optimization of the filtering logic for checkpoint files and directories.