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UPDATE: The upgrade ran without problems. We will be performing some maintenance on the database tonight (Monday, June 21, 2010) at 22:00 PST. We will temporarily disable background jobs while…

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Josh Owens for webpulp.tv. We talked about the GitHub architecture, Grit, BERT and Ernie, Erlang, load balancing, Redis…

As you may know, on thursday, 2010-06-10, we had a machine in one of our fileserver pairs fail. This caused an outage for all users on that fileserver, and corrupted…

For all you Android developers out there, we now will automatically detect when you upload an Android package (.apk) file and will give you a QR code page link on…

If you’ve ever wished you could have push notifications sent to your iPhone when someone commits to your repository — today’s your lucky day. We recently added support for Notifo…

Summer is almost here and its time for another meetup! In what is perhaps an overly optimistic act, we’re going to do another meetup outdoors at Irish Bank. It might…

Slide just open-sourced a bunch of code on their GitHub account, joining the likes of Digg, Yahoo, Facebook and many more forward-thinking companies. Check it out.

In the talks and trainings that I do, I’ve been wanting a shorter, simpler reference site for people learning Git. The Pro Git book, being a full book, sometimes intimidates…

We’re always keeping an ear to the ground about GitHub and one of things that comes up a fair amount is improving our feature visibility. In other words, we offer…

We’ll be sponsoring the Dutch PHP Conference’s after party next Friday, June 11th in Amsterdam. Details here. If you’re attending the conference, look for the guy in the Fork You…

My GitHub side project, Calendar About Nothing, has just been updated with GitHub OAuth2 support. I’ll be posting implementation details tomorrow in our API forum if any developers want to…

UPDATE: Maintenance completed with great success. Thanks! The site will be down for maintenance today (Friday, May 28, 2010) starting at 22:00 PST for a (long due) Redis upgrade. We…

If you’ve been following us on the twitters, you know that we recently got our first office space in San Francisco. Our first course of action was to immediately purchase…

github-rebase(1) – Forward-port awesome projects to the updated upstream head Featured Project memcached is the battle tested in-memory key/value store that helps power GitHub among countless other sites and makes…

I just pushed a feature that optionally uses annotated tags to describe your project’s downloads. Check out how Rails describes their v2.3.5 release: Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 * Improved Ruby…