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News & insights
Resources for developers seeking to stay informed about the latest industry trends, research, and updates from GitHub. Explore research and surveys that delve into various aspects of software development and open source communities—and Octoverse, which provides detailed annual analyses of open source and public projects across GitHub.
GitHub availability this week
GitHub.com suffered two outages early this week that resulted in one hour and 46 minutes of downtime and another hour of significantly degraded performance. This is far below our standard…
Drinkup in Ljubljana, Slovenia
What OpenBlend is happening, and when @ben speaks at conferences, he likes to spread joy and cheer. Let GitHub buy you some 🍺, 🍸, 🍹, or 🍷, and geek out…
South Bend Drinkup
What Join the midwest contingent of GitHub for a pint or two in the hometown of @jonmagic, @jnunemaker, and @orderedlist. Come wax philosophic on the importance of software development, version…
Oslo Drinkup #2
Tim Berglund is in Oslo, Norway for his third year of the amazing JavaZone conference. And when he’s in Norway, he wants to host drinkups. What The drinkup will return…
Searching and Filtering Stars
You can already see all the repositories you’ve starred at github.com/stars, but today your Stars page just got a whole lot better. Search Looking for a repository you starred? Search…
Atlanta Drinkup
Join @rick and myself for our next drinkup down South this Wednesday at our favorite spot in Atlanta, GA: the Publik Draft House! I’ll be speaking at this month’s Atlanta…
Honolulu Drinkup
Join us for our first ever drinkup (as far as I can tell) in the land of Aloha! After speaking about Git and GitHub at the Box Jelly at 7:00…
GitHub Enterprise 11.10.280 Release
We’re excited to announce the latest release of GitHub Enterprise. We’ve been working hard to bring you the most recent features from GitHub.com, and we’re shipping this version with our…
Watcher API Changes
We recently changed the Watcher behavior on GitHub. What used to be known as “Watching” is now “Starring”. Starring is basically a way to bookmark interesting repositories. Watching is a…
How we keep GitHub fast
The most important factor in web application design is responsiveness. And the first step toward responsiveness is speed. But speed within a web application is complicated. Our strategy for keeping…
Brooklyn Drinkup
NYC has had its share of drinkups, but it’s about time Brooklyn had its own. So get your butt on the G train, or take a short walk from the…
Commit Status API
Today, we shipped an API for third party services to attach statuses to commits. We created this API to allow services to color the discussion on pull requests. For example,…
DjangoCon Drinkup
Djangonauts Unite! Join @bryanveloso and me tonight for drinks and excellent conversation, with GitHub picking up the tab. When? Tuesday, September 4th (tonight) at 9pm. Where? Tortoise & Hare
Octokittens Everywhere!
Many GitHubbers are parents, so optimizing for happiness means thinking about the entire, extended GitHub family. We work on our own schedule, from anywhere in the world, doing the best…
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