GitHub Meetup SF #9
Its time for a meetup! This week we’ll be going to a faraway place, a place once thought to only exist in legend, a land they call the ‘Richmond’. According…
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Load Balancing at GitHub
We’ve had a number of inquiries into why we chose ldirectord as our primary load balancer for the new GitHub architecture. As I’ve mentioned before (and more on this later),…
Post-Mortem of This Morning’s Outage
At 07:53 PDT this morning the site was hit with an abnormal number of SSH connections. The script that runs after an SSH connection is accepted makes an RPC call…
jQuery!
jQuery, which we use for GitHub itself, is now hosted right here: http://github.com/jquery/jquery img http://img.skitch.com/20091029-dbpp26n16mqwhxgrbscsgabf89.png http://github.com/jquery/jquery If you’ve never contributed to the project, now’s a great time. Welcome, team!
Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub
Bob Silverberg just posted a nice guide to Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub. Thanks Bob!
GitHub Rebase #29
Time to get your Rebase on! Send me a message about your project if you want to see it featured here, and please check out the Rebase howto as well.…
GitHub Meetup SF #8
Come get your drink on with the people of the Hub at Blackbird this Thursday October 22nd at 8pm. Also, be sure to look out for a possible Drinkup:Shanghai, China…
Introducing BERT and BERT-RPC
As I detailed in How We Made GitHub Fast, we have created a new data serialization and RPC protocol to power the GitHub backend. We have big plans for these…
How We Made GitHub Fast
Now that things have settled down from the move to Rackspace, I wanted to take some time to go over the architectural changes that we’ve made in order to bring…
Scheduled Maintenance Tonight at 23:00 PDT
We will be having a maintenance window tonight from [2](00 to 23:59 PDT”:http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=18&year=2009&hour=23&min=0&sec=0&p1=224). A very small amount of web unavailability will be required during this period. We will be upgrading…
Helping with Texting
UNICEF is using SMS to help those in need. And they’re doing it with open source. You can read all about RapidSMS, their Mobile and SMS platform, but here’s a…
Scheduled Maintenance Tonight at 22:00 PDT
We’re having another maintenance window tonight from [2](00 to 23:00 PDT”:http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=15&year=2009&hour=22&min=0&sec=0&p1=224). We will be installing and testing the “sorry server” that will be enabled if no frontends are available to…
TUAW on GitHub
The Unofficial Apple Weblog, or TUAW, is now on GitHub: http://github.com/tuaw img http://img.skitch.com/20091014-p9c85ngu2yrhsr7jnrd888ex6.png http://github.com/tuaw While there’s nothing there yet, they only announced the account yesterday and said in the post,…
Gist Improvements
Another day, more updates! We just rolled out some subtle changes to Gist Search! All gists are now searchable. Want to find all gists about unicorn? Done. Unified user box.…
Speedy Version Sorting
Last week I offered fame and fortune to anyone who could speed up our version_sorter. It’s used to sort a repo’s tags: This morning I ran the numbers and the…
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