Improving GitHub code search
Today, we are rolling out a technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub.
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Engineering
GitHub Availability Report: November 2021
In November, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for multiple services.
Using ChatOps to help Actions on-call engineers
You can multiply the impact of your domain experts by building their common workflows into ChatOps.
5 DevOps tips to speed up your developer workflow
From learning YAML to scripting with Bash, here are a few simple tips for developers who want to speed up their workflows.
GraphQL global ID migration update
All newly created GraphQL objects now have IDs that conform to a new format, which we refer to as "next IDs." Learn how to migrate older IDs to the new format and why we're making the change.
Highlights from Git 2.34
To celebrate this most recent release, here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index
The new sparse index feature makes it feel like you are working in a small repository when working in a focused portion of a monorepo.
GitHub Availability Report: October 2021
In October, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for the GitHub Codespaces service.
GitHub Availability Report: September 2021
In September, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.
Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale
In 2019, to meet GitHub's growth and availability challenges, we set a plan in motion to improve our tooling and ability to partition relational databases.
Increasing developer happiness with GitHub code scanning
How GitHub uses code scanning to increase developer happiness, and how you can too.
GitHub Availability Report: August 2021
In August, we experienced two distinct incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for Git operations, API requests, webhooks, issues, pull requests, GitHub Pages, GitHub Packages, and GitHub Actions services.
GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces
Over the past months, we’ve left our macOS model behind and moved to Codespaces for the majority of GitHub.com development.
GitHub Availability Report: July 2021
In July, GitHub experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.
Adding support for cross-cluster associations to Rails 7
At GitHub, we recently added a new feature to Rails that will be available in 7.0: support for handling associations across database clusters.