Debugging network stalls on Kubernetes
In this deep-dive, we identified and worked through sporadic latency issues with services running on Kubernetes in our environment.
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Getting started with Git and GitHub is easier than ever with GitHub Desktop 2.2
GitHub Desktop 2.2 now features an interactive tutorial to help introduce new users to Git and GitHub.
New workflow editor for GitHub Actions
Edit your GitHub Actions workflow files easier with features to help you minimize errors and more.
Introducing the CodeSearchNet challenge
We’re announcing the CodeSearchNet Challenge and releasing a large dataset for natural language processing and machine learning.
Track your work easily with the latest changes to project boards
The projects section of the issue sidebar has been updated to better convey project information, and you can change an issue’s project column directly from the sidebar.
Accelerating the GitHub Sponsors beta with Stripe Connect
GitHub Sponsors now features a new streamlined onboarding and payment experience with Stripe Connect.
Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
On August 26, 2019, the GitHub application was deployed to production with 100% of traffic on the newest Rails version: 6.0. Read more about our process for upgrading, what we learned, and what’s next.
C# or Java? TypeScript or JavaScript? Machine learning based classification of programming languages
To make language detection more robust and maintainable in the long run, we developed a machine learning classifier named OctoLingua based on an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) architecture which can handle language predictions in tricky scenarios.
Direct instruction marking in Ruby 2.6
We recently upgraded GitHub to use the latest version of Ruby 2.6. Ruby 2.6 contains an optimization for reducing memory usage.
Vulcanizer: a library for operating Elasticsearch
Vulcanizer is a Go library for interacting with an Elasticsearch cluster. Its goal is to provide a high-level API to help with common tasks associated with operating an Elasticsearch cluster such as querying health status of the cluster, migrating data off of nodes, updating cluster settings, and more.
Five years of the GitHub Bug Bounty program
Read about some big changes for the coming year: full legal protection for researchers, more GitHub properties eligible for rewards, and increased reward amounts.
An open source parser for GitHub Actions
Update: This blog post is no longer relevant with the update to GitHub Actions in August 2019. See the GitHub Actions documentation for more information. Since the beta release of…
Atom understands your code better than ever before
Atom 1.32 provides improved syntax highlighting and code folding by parsing your code while you type it.