Scheduled Maintenance Windows
As our infrastructure continues to grow and evolve, it's sometimes necessary to perform system maintenance that may cause downtime. We have a number of projects queued up over the coming…
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Network problems last Friday
On Friday, November 30th, GitHub had a rough day. We experienced 18 minutes of complete unavailability along with sporadic bursts of slow responses and intermittent errors for the entire day.…
html-pipeline: Chainable Content Filters
Ever wondered how to get emoji, syntax highlighting, custom linking, and markdown to play nice together? HTML::Pipeline is the answer.
Rebel: a Framework for Improving AppKit
In our last blog post, we revealed Mantle, our Cocoa model framework. Today, we're announcing Rebel, a framework for improving AppKit. Since you may recall our original TwUI announcement, the…
Mantle: a Model Framework for Objective-C
Lately, we've been shipping more in GitHub for Mac than ever before. Now that username autocompletion and Notification Center support are out the door, we're releasing the two frameworks that…
The GitHub:Training Web Site is a Thing
The past six months have seen tremendous growth in GitHub's training organization. We've added people, we've added materials, and we've been to more places on the planet to help make…
The GitHub hiring experience
Crafting experiences is central to what we do here at GitHub, and our interviewing, hiring, and on-boarding experiences are no exception. Having recently been through this process first-hand, I’d like…
How we ship GitHub for Windows
We’ve shipped 25 updates to GitHub for Windows in the 4 months since we first launched. That’s more than one release per week, for 17 weeks straight! Here’s how we…
GitHub availability this week
GitHub.com suffered two outages early this week that resulted in one hour and 46 minutes of downtime and another hour of significantly degraded performance. This is far below our standard…
How we keep GitHub fast
The most important factor in web application design is responsiveness. And the first step toward responsiveness is speed. But speed within a web application is complicated. Our strategy for keeping…
Deploying at GitHub
Deploying is a big part of the lives of most GitHub employees. We don't have a release manager and there are no set weekly deploys. Developers and designers are responsible…
Optimizing Sales for Happiness
Looking for GitHub's sales team? Please Contact Us. 10/17/14 Update from @pjhyett: Building products that people love paired with a customer-focused sales team hasn't changed, but the specifics of our…
Surviving the SSHpocolypse
Over the past few days, we have had some issues with our SSH infrastructure affecting a small number of Git SSH operations. We apologize for the inconvenience, and are happy…
Designing GitHub for Windows
This article hasn't been updated in a while. For the most current information, please refer to the docs and the Desktop website. Today, I thought it would be fun to…
The Making of Octicons
In our last post we announced Octicons, our new icon font. We put a lot of work into the font and gained a lot of knowledge in the process. With…