Engineering principles

It has been a year since we’ve launched the first public release of GitHub CLI. Since, we have added functionality to manage your repositories, comment on issues, enable auto-merge for…

GitHub’s engineering group moved from a monolithic, hero-based on-call rotation to a more balanced on-call culture in order to increase our on-call expertise and improve the experience for our customers.

This is the second post in a series about how we built our new homepage. How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the 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…

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…

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,…

ICYMI: docs.github.com is the new place to discover all of GitHub’s product documentation! We recently completed a major overhaul of GitHub’s documentation websites. When you visit docs.github.com today, you’ll see…

The GitHub engineering team shares best practices for making remote work part of your company culture.

GitHub shares best practices for making remote work part of your company culture.

On August 26, 2019, the GitHub application was deployed to production with 100% of traffic on the newest Rails version: 6.0. Read more about our process for upgrading, what we learned, and what’s next.

We have recently completed a milestone where we were able to drop jQuery as a dependency of the frontend code for GitHub.com. This marks the end of a gradual, years-long…

Anyone who has worked on a large enough codebase knows that technical debt is an inescapable reality: The more rapidly an application grows in size and complexity, the more technical…

At GitHub we have a lot of software running our product and company. We also have a lot of potential contributing members. Being able to get from git clone to…

At GitHub, we use a variant of the Flow pattern to deploy changes: new code is always deployed from a pull request branch, and merged only once it has been…

Believe it or not, just over a year ago, GitHub Pages, the documentation hosting service that powers nearly three-quarters of a million sites, was little more than a 100-line shell…