Behind the scenes: GitHub security alerts
Learn more about what’s behind the scenes with GitHub vulnerability alerts.
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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.
Debugging network stalls on Kubernetes
In this deep-dive, we identified and worked through sporadic latency issues with services running on Kubernetes in our environment.
Introducing the CodeSearchNet challenge
We’re announcing the CodeSearchNet Challenge and releasing a large dataset for natural language processing and machine learning.
Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
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.
GitHub Token Scanning—one billion tokens identified and five new partners
Token scanning has reached a new milestone: one billion tokens identified. We’ve also added five new partners—Atlassian, Dropbox, Discord, Proctorio, and Pulumi.
Commit signing support for bots and other GitHub Apps
Commit signing is now enabled for all bots by default.
SSH certificate authentication for GitHub Enterprise Cloud
Enterprise and organization admins can now register their SSH certificate authorities with GitHub, helping their team access repositories over Git using SSH certificates.
Direct instruction marking in Ruby 2.6
We recently upgraded GitHub to use the latest version of Ruby 2.6. Ruby 2.6 contains an optimization for reducing memory usage.
Five years of the GitHub Bug Bounty program
Read about some big changes for the coming year: full legal protection for researchers, more GitHub properties eligible for rewards, and increased reward amounts.
Introducing the new GitHub Status Site
Performance and reliability conversations as a GitHub product
Behind the scenes of GitHub Token Scanning
We’ve extended GitHub Token Scanning to include tokens from cloud service providers and additional credentials.
Applying machine intelligence to GitHub security alerts
Learn how we use machine learning to power and build on security alerts and make GitHub more secure.
Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2
On August 15th GitHub celebrated a major milestone: our main application is now running on the latest version of Rails: 5.2.1! 🎉 In total the project took a year and…
Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend
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…
GLB: GitHub’s open source load balancer
At GitHub, we serve tens of thousands of requests every second out of our network edge, operating on GitHub’s metal cloud. We’ve previously introduced GLB, our scalable load balancing solution…
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