Transit and Peering: How your requests reach GitHub
GitHub is at a scale that provides exposure to interesting aspects of running a major site and are working to mature and level-up many parts of our infrastructure as we…
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GitHub is at a scale that provides exposure to interesting aspects of running a major site and are working to mature and level-up many parts of our infrastructure as we…
Over the past 18 months we’ve made a significant investment in GitHub’s physical infrastructure. The goal of this work is to improve the redundancy and global availability of our system.…
GitHub is proud to handle thousands of requests per second from our millions of users. The Internet, however, can be a fickle beast of cables and sparks, and sometimes those…
Earlier this year, we announced the deprecation of several weak cryptographic standards. As noted during our initial announcement, the vast majority of HTTPS clients connect to GitHub using TLSv1.2 and…
Git LFS v2.3.0 is now available with performance improvements to git lfs migrate and git clone, new features, bug fixes, and more. Download Git LFS v2.3.0 git lfs migrate With…
Earlier this year, we launched topics, a new feature that lets you tag repositories with descriptive words or phrases. Topics help you create connections between similar GitHub projects and explore…
Visibility is essential to effectively operating complex systems. As our network has grown, we've had to improve the the way we collect data about it to keep up. Key to…
Over the last year, GitHub has gradually evolved the infrastructure that runs the Ruby on Rails application responsible for github.com and api.github.com. We reached a big milestone recently: all web…
We recently launched Topics, a new feature that lets you tag your repositories with descriptive words or phrases, making it easy to discover projects and explore GitHub.com. Topic suggestions on…
In an effort to increase the adoption of FIDO U2F second factor authentication, we're releasing Soft U2F—a software-based U2F authenticator for macOS. Soft U2F currently works with Google Chrome and…
In an effort to increase the adoption of FIDO U2F second factor authentication, we're releasing Soft U2F: a software-based U2F authenticator for macOS. We've long been interested in promoting better…
Our MySQL infrastructure is a critical component to GitHub. MySQL serves GitHub.com, GitHub's API, authentication and more. Every git request touches MySQL in some way. We are tasked with keeping…
Git LFS v2.2.0 is now available with the all-new git-lfs-migrate command, making it easier than ever to start using Git LFS in your repository. For example, if you've tried to…
At GitHub we recently revamped how we do DNS from the ground up. This included both how we interact with external DNS providers and how we serve records internally to…
Today we released the new GitHub Desktop Beta, rewritten on Electron.Electron is a well-known on-ramp for web developers to build desktop apps using familiar web technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.