News & insights

On my first day at GitHub, I asked the crew what they wanted to me to do around here. Their response was something along the lines of “make GitHub sexy”…

Tom, PJ, and Scott will be hanging out at MOOD Club at 21:30 tonight (Saturday) in Poznań, Poland following the first day of the RuPy Conference. If you’re local or…

Behold the power of open source! @adamcooke has reskinned Resque’s web UI. img http://img.skitch.com/20091104-8c41b9jmdtyc79jc76yap53igc.png http://img.skitch.com/20091104-jsqydh9jgg9ju4tkt66jqm2399.png img http://img.skitch.com/20091104-cs222tun9yna4s46ywt7jqdjqk.png http://img.skitch.com/20091104-k3iuxw8hqsce86b5pdphsctsg4.png Also now includes live updating: img http://img.skitch.com/20091104-1nqebsad9kuac6ixaqgykqmste.png http://img.skitch.com/20091104-88wn3wtc9jnacas3mytxxwn6c9.png Thanks Adam!

Resque is our Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later. Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds…

@ab5tract has a great post looking at GitHub “through the lens of the ethics of commons-based peer production.” A key quote which puts it in perspective for me is this:…

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…

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),…

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, 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!

Bob Silverberg just posted a nice guide to Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub. Thanks Bob!

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…