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…
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Unicorn!
We've been running Unicorn for more than a month. Time to talk about it. What is it? Unicorn is an HTTP server for Ruby, similar to Mongrel or Thin. It…
Rackspace Move Scheduled for Sunday, September 27th at 5PM Pacific Time
On Sunday, September 27th at 5PM Pacific time (see it in your timezone) we will begin the final move to Rackspace. We are aiming to have less than an hour…
Deployment Script Spring Cleaning
Better late than never, right? As we get ready to upgrade our servers I thought it'd be a good time to upgrade our deployment process. Currently pushing out a new…
GitHub Rebase #16
It's time for another Rebase! Let's get started. (Want to get noticed? Here's how to improve your chances) Featured Project selectorgadget is the swiss-army knife of embeddable bookmarks. It can…
GitHub Rebase #11
A bit late, but always delivered. All of the projects and people featured this week crank the volume to 11! (Stats Breakdown lost its passport on vacation, and hopefully will…
Only the beginning
2008 has been an incredible year for many of us, both here are GitHub and within the fantastic community that has bloomed around us and that we depend on. I…
GitHub Rebase #9
The middle of December has brought us a few feet of snow and the return of graphs! I'm looking for new ways to show off the ridiculous amount of data…
Insider Guide to GitHub Series
A few months ago I started talking with the Pragmatic Programmers about doing some screencasts. At the time, I was doing the GitCasts series and was considering branching out into…
GitHub Rebase #7
Welcome to the seventh edition of Rebase! Starting this week I'll be nominating a new repo to the "Featured Project" section on the front page, and explaining why I think…
GitHub Rebase #5
I've done some serious work towards generating more accurate statistics this week. If you're interested in how the graphs are made, check out my rebase project. I'm going to be…
GitHub Rebase #4
Sorry about the delay on this one folks. Enjoy! :) Stats Breakdown Notable Projects acts_like_git: Crappy name, but this Rails plugin really does some neat stuff. It allows you to…
GitHub Rebase #3
This week I've changed the graphs around quite a bit! The activity on the site just continues to increase, and surprisingly it didn't take a hit because of RubyConf. Stats…
GitHub Rebase #2
It looks like I've been enlisted as an official blogger to bring you the latest and greatest work that's coming out of GitHub! Sit back, ogle at the graphs, and…
The New Queue
Yesterday we moved to a new queue, Shopify's delayed_job (or dj). After trying a few different solutions in the early days, we settled on Ara Howard's Bj. It was fine…
GitTogether 2008
What happens when a dozen Git developers get together for beers after an all day Git conference? Patches like this: Subject: [PATCH 1/1] diff: support making output friendlier for fine,…
GitHub Rebase #1
Everyone's favorite qrush has started a weekly series detailing activity on GitHub. He's calling it Rebase. Cool!