Weak cryptographic standards removal notice
Last year we announced the deprecation of several weak cryptographic standards. Then we provided a status update toward the end of last year outlining some changes we'd made to make…
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Mitigating replication lag and reducing read load with freno
At GitHub, we use MySQL as the main database technology backing our services. We run classic MySQL master-replica setups, where writes go to the master, and replicas replay master's changes asynchronously. To be able to serve our traffic we read data from the MySQL replicas.
A more connected universe
Almost a decade ago, GitHub was created as a place for developers to work together on code. Now, millions of people around the world use our platform to build businesses,…
Release Radar · September 2017
Welcome to the first edition of the Release Radar, where we share the projects popping up on our radar—from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects. Most importantly, they're all projects…
Kubernetes at GitHub
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…
Topic Suggestions for Millions of Repositories
We recently launched Topics, a new feature that lets you tag your repositories with descriptive words or phrases, making it easy to discover projects and explore GitHub.com. Topic suggestions on…
MySQL infrastructure testing automation at GitHub
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…
How to fix errors in production with GitHub and Sentry
This post was written by our partners at Sentry—an open source error tracker that helps you prioritize, identify, reproduce, and fix issues. Install Sentry from GitHub Marketplace or the Student…
DNS Infrastructure at GitHub
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…
How Four Native Developers Wrote An Electron App
Today we released the new GitHub Desktop Beta, rewritten on Electron.Electron is a well-known on-ramp for web developers to build desktop apps using familiar web technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Integrating Git in Atom
Perform common Git operations without leaving the editor: stage changes, make commits, create and switch branches, resolve merge conflicts, and more.
See you at OSCON this week
Greetings, Austin! If you're going to OSCON this week, we'd love to meet you. We'll be at the GitHub booth in the Expo Hall on Wednesday from 10am-7pm and Thursday…
Disabling projects
Not every team manages their work on GitHub in the same way. Now you can disable repository and organization-wide Projects if you're not using them. Users with admin privileges on…
Open source license descriptions and metadata
Back in September we added open source licenses to repository overview pages. Now, when you view a repository's license, we'll tell you a bit more about it. If a project…
A glimpse into GitHub’s Bug Bounty workflow
Last month, we announced the third anniversary of our Bug Bounty Program. While there's still time to disclose your findings through the program, we wanted to pull back the curtain…
GitHub’s post-CSP journey
Last year we shared some details on GitHub's CSP journey. A journey was a good way to describe it, as our usage of Content Security Policy (CSP) significantly changed from…
Orchestrator at GitHub
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…
Interview with Olivia Ross, Black Girls CODE alumna and game designer
Olivia Ross is a high school sophomore at Phillips Exeter Academy. After teaching herself to code in junior high, she found herself addicted to this new medium for her creativity.…
Building your first Atom plugin
Authored by GitHub Campus Expert @NickTikhonov. This tutorial will teach you how to write your first package for the Atom text editor. We'll be building a clone of Sourcerer, a…
Community Partners for CodeConf LA
Since we are only a few days away from CodeConf LA, we’re happy to announce our Community Partners for the next conference in our 2016 lineup. Community Partners are chosen…
Meet Josh Simpson, student, developer, and hackathon advocate
To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Josh Simpson, who is currently pursuing his computer science degree at King’s College…