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Update on 1/28 service outage

On Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 00:23am UTC, we experienced a severe service outage that impacted GitHub.com. We know that any disruption in our service can impact your development workflow,…

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Hello World

What does it take to run and build GitHub? On our new Engineering Blog we'll show you how it's done. Through the writings of our engineers you'll gain insight into…

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The GitHub Engineering Blog

We are happy to introduce GitHub's Engineering Blog to the world. Starting today, you can read details about our infrastructure, learn about our development practices, and hear about the knowledge…

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Newcastle Upon Tyne Meetup

@dbussink, @samlambert, @jlord and @mikemcquaid are in town so join them for delicious BBQ and Beer (or soft beverage of your choice) at Campus North. Everyone is welcome! The Facts:…

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Making MySQL Better at GitHub

At GitHub we say, "it's not fully shipped until it's fast." We've talked before about some of the ways we keep our frontend experience speedy, but that's only part of…

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Newcastle Upon Tyne Drinkup

@samlambert and @dbussink are going to be in town for The PHP North East Conference and would like you to join them for :beers: or other beverage of your choice…

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Site Maintenance August 31st 2013

This Saturday, August 31st, 2013 at 5AM PDT we will be upgrading a large portion of our database infrastructure in order to provide a faster and more reliable GitHub experience.…