How the GitHub Docs team uses GitHub Projects
Explore how the GitHub Docs team uses GitHub Projects for content coordination, reviews, and publishing.
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Engineering
Over the course of a year, GitHub’s engineers make millions of commits across all of our internal repositories, process billions of API requests, and run tens of thousands of deployments across the internal apps that power GitHub’s services. We use many of GitHub’s products and plenty of other open source tools to operate at this scale. Here’s an inside look into how we do it.
Enabling branch deployments through IssueOps with GitHub Actions
What if developers want to leverage branch deployments but don’t have a full ChatOps stack integrated with their repositories? We wanted to set out to find a way for all developers to be able to take advantage of branch deployments with ease, right from their GitHub repository, and so the branch-deploy Action was born!
How GitHub coordinates product releases with GitHub Projects and GitHub Actions
When teams work cross-functionally, good things happen. See how our teams use GitHub Projects to coordinate and ship new products and features.
What’s with all the ducks?
What in the world do rubber ducks have to do with programming? And why were they everywhere at GitHub Universe? A lot of you asked, so I’m here to help explain.
How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
Our engineering and security teams do some incredible work. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left.
Creating an accessible search experience with the QueryBuilder component
GitHub’s search inputs have several complex accessibility considerations. Let’s dive into what those are, how we addressed them, and talk about the standalone, reusable component that was ultimately built.
Experiment: The hidden costs of waiting on slow build times
How much does it really cost to buy more powerful cloud compute resources for development work? A lot less than you think.
How GitHub converts previously encrypted and unencrypted columns to ActiveRecord encrypted columns
This post is the second part in a series about ActiveRecord::Encryption that shows how GitHub upgrades previously encrypted and unencrypted columns to ActiveRecord::Encryption.
Why and how GitHub encrypts sensitive database columns using ActiveRecord::Encryption
You may know that GitHub encrypts your source code at rest, but you may not have known that we encrypt sensitive database columns as well. Read about our column encryption strategy and our decision to adopt the Rails column encryption standard.
How we tripled max concurrent jobs to boost performance of GitHub Actions
The GitHub Actions team has done lots of work to improve the performance and resource consumption of Actions on GHES in the past year.
Scaling Git’s garbage collection
A tour of recent work to re-engineer Git’s garbage collection process to scale to our largest and most active repositories.
How the GitHub Security Team uses projects and GitHub Actions for planning, tracking, and more
Can projects and GitHub Actions be used by your non-developer teams? They absolutely can. Check out how our Security Team uses GitHub to run the department effortlessly.
Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
Monorepo performance can suffer due to the sheer number of files in your working directory. Git’s new builtin file system monitor makes it easy to speed up monorepo performance.
How we think about browsers
Discover how GitHub thinks about browser support, look at usage patterns, and learn about the tools we use to make sure our customers are getting the best experience.
How we use Dependabot to secure GitHub
A two-part story about how GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team rolled out Dependabot internally to track vulnerable dependencies, and how GitHub tracks and prioritizes technical debt.
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