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Over the past 18 months we’ve made a significant investment in GitHub’s physical infrastructure. The goal of this work is to improve the redundancy and global availability of our system.…

Enhance performance in high availability environments, define more granular permissions, and seamlessly review code with GitHub Enterprise 2.11. Our latest release brings together some of the most-requested features to make…

Over the last year, GitHub has gradually evolved the infrastructure that runs the Ruby on Rails application responsible for github.com and api.github.com. We reached a big milestone recently: all web…

Our MySQL infrastructure is a critical component to GitHub. MySQL serves GitHub.com, GitHub’s API, authentication and more. Every git request touches MySQL in some way. We are tasked with keeping…

The latest GitHub Enterprise release is here with updates for developers and admins alike. Customizable workflows and advanced project tracking help your team do more at every step of the…

The latest GitHub Enterprise release is here with updates for developers and admins alike. Customizable workflows and advanced project tracking help your team do more at every step of the…

At GitHub we recently revamped how we do DNS from the ground up. This included both how we interact with external DNS providers and how we serve records internally to…

GitHub Enterprise 2.9 is now available with improvements for both developers and administrators. With this release, administrators will see improvements in reliability and developers can get more out of pull…

GitHub uses MySQL to store its metadata: Issues, Pull Requests, comments, organizations, notifications and so forth. While git repository data does not need MySQL to exist and persist, GitHub’s service…

Over the last year we’ve developed our new load balancer, called GLB (GitHub Load Balancer). Today, and over the next few weeks, we will be sharing the design and releasing its components as open source software.

Datadog is now offering their Pro plan to students in the Student Developer Pack. With Datadog, you’ll be able to see metrics from all your apps, tools, and services. The…

Spokes is the replication system for the file servers where we store over 38 million Git repositories and over 36 million gists.It keeps at least three copies of every repository…

At GitHub we use MySQL as our main datastore. While repository data lies in git, metadata is stored in MySQL. This includes Issues, Pull Requests, Comments etc. We also auth…

GitHub hosts a wide range of user content, and like all large websites this often causes us to become a target of denial of service attacks. Around a year ago,…

Edit: DGit is now called Spokes GitHub hosts over 35 million repositories and over 30 million Gists on hundreds of servers. Over the past year, we’ve built DGit, a new…

Last week GitHub was unavailable for two hours and six minutes. We understand how much you rely on GitHub and consider the availability of our service one of the core…

If you’re writing code, a repository is an obvious place to manage your work. But what about when the team’s primary deliverable is not software? At GitHub, the Professional Services…

At GitHub we place an emphasis on stability, availability, and performance. A large component of ensuring we excel in these areas is deploying services on bare-metal hardware. This allows us…

We want to free up your administrator’s time by providing a tool that requires little maintenance and great out-of-the-box security. By following a few simple steps, GitHub Enterprise can be…

The Systems Team at GitHub works to solve complex bugs and performance bottlenecks at the lowest levels of our infrastructure. Over the past two years we’ve undertaken a major project…

GitHub Pages, our static site hosting service, has always had a very simple architecture. From launch up until around the beginning of 2015, the entire service ran on a single…