4 ways we use GitHub Actions to build GitHub
From automating builds and releases to taking care of large-scale regression testing, here are a few ways we use GitHub Actions to build GitHub.
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How GitHub does take home technical interviews
We believe our technical interviews should be as similar as possible to the way we work at GitHub.
An update on recent service disruptions
Over the past few weeks, we have experienced multiple incidents due to the health of our database. We wanted to share what we know about these incidents while our team continues to address them.
GitHub Availability Report: February 2022
In February, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub services.
Codespaces for the largest repositories just got faster
The ability to prebuild codespaces is entering public beta. Enable fast environment creation times, regardless of the size and complexity of your repositories.
Leveraging machine learning to find security vulnerabilities
A behind-the-scenes peek into the machine learning framework powering new code scanning security alerts.
Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
A picture tells a thousand words. Now you can quickly create and edit diagrams in markdown using words with Mermaid support in your Markdown files.
GitHub Availability Report: January 2022
In January, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.
Code scanning and Ruby: turning source code into a queryable database
A deep dive into how GitHub adds support for new languages to CodeQL.
Highlights from Git 2.35
The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
How we ship GitHub Mobile every week
Learn how the GitHub Mobile Team automates their release process with GitHub Actions.
GitHub Availability Report: December 2021
In December, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.
Technical interviews via Codespaces
Codespaces is a great tool for technical hiring exercises and helps level the playing field for candidates.
A brief history of code search at GitHub
This blog post tells the story of why we built a new search engine optimized for code.
Introducing stack graphs
Precise code navigation is powered by stack graphs, a new open source framework that lets you define the name binding rules for a programming language.