How we built the GitHub globe
GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how…
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Engineering
Commits are snapshots, not diffs
Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that "rewrite history" such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience,…
Reducing flaky builds by 18x
Part of the Building GitHub blog series. It’s four o’clock in the afternoon as you push the last tweak to your branch. Your teammate already reviewed and approved your pull request…
Encapsulating Ruby on Rails views
Learn more about how we are bringing encapsulation to our views as we scale to over 4,500 templates in our Ruby on Rails monolith.
The evolving role of operations in DevOps
GitHub's team delves into answering the question "what are operations roles in the development and operations (DevOps) environments". From automating the role of QA in DevOps and more for smaller, faster delivery cycles.
Improving the GHES release process: release candidates
In our ongoing “Building GitHub” series, we talk about some of the projects we’re working on to improve how efficiently we build GitHub, as well as increase GitHub’s availability, stability,…
GitHub Availability Report: November 2020
Introduction In November, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for issues, pull requests, and GitHub Actions services. November 2 12:00 UTC (lasting 32…
Nbdev: A literate programming environment that democratizes software engineering best practices
Learn about nbdev, a new literate programming environment for Python.
Getting started with DevOps automation
This is the second post in our series on DevOps fundamentals. For a guide to what DevOps is and answers to common DevOps myths check out part one. What role…
Making GitHub CI workflow 3x faster
Using deferred compliance in GitHub’s CI process to improve developer productivity.
Building GitHub: introduction
An introduction to our blog series on GitHub’s investments in technical excellence.
Highlights from Git 2.29
The open source Git project just released Git 2.29 with features and bug fixes from over 89 contributors, 24 of them new. Last time we caught up with you, Git 2.28 had just been…
How to get your organization started with containerized deployments
This is our second post on cloud deployment with containers. Looking for more? Join our upcoming GitHub Actions webcast with Sarah, Solutions Engineer Pavan Ravipati, and Senior Product Manager Kayla…
Testing cloud apps with GitHub Actions and cloud-native open source tools
See this post in action during GitHub Demo Days on October 16. What makes a project successful? For developers building cloud-native applications, successful projects thrive on transparent, consistent, and rigorous…
GitHub Availability Report: August 2020
Introduction In August, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime. This month's GitHub Availability Report will dive into updates to the GitHub Status Page and provide follow-up details on…