Patchwork Stockholm
Patchwork is headed to Stockholm! This event is open to beginners to Git and GitHub and mentors who want to help others learn. We'll have stickers for everyone and a…
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Deprecation notice: Removing anonymous gist creation
In 30 days, we'll be deprecating anonymous gist creation—a decision we made after a lot of deliberation. Anonymous gists are a handy tool for quickly putting a code snippet online,…
New in Marketplace: tools for testing, project management, and more
This month, we’re introducing a few new apps to help you write, manage, and deploy code. To see what's new and find more ways to work better, head to GitHub…
Give the gift of code this holiday season with 24 Pull Requests
24 Pull Requests is an annual community-organized event encouraging developers to give back to open source projects over the holiday season. Be part of this year's giving by submitting 24…
And the theme for Game Off 2017 is…
Game Off—our fifth annual game jam celebrating open source is officially underway. The theme for this year’s jam is throwback. Let your imagination run wild and interpret that in any…
Game Off, our annual game jam returns in November
Game Off—our fifth annual game jam returns in just two weeks! A game jam is a hackathon for creating video games. Although most game jams run for 24-72 hours, the…
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.
Transit and Peering: How your requests reach GitHub
GitHub is at a scale that provides exposure to interesting aspects of running a major site and are working to mature and level-up many parts of our infrastructure as we…
Webcast recap: Driving secure, collaborative development
Security is an essential part of any engineering organization—especially in regulated industries, like automotive. In our recent webcast, "Driving secure, collaborative development", GitHub Solutions Engineer Phil Holleran walked through GitHub…
Introducing our Universe Community Partners
With GitHub Universe one month away we are excited to announce our 2017 Community Partners! We choose Community Partners based on several criteria but the three main questions we ask…
GitHub Classroom now supports deadlines and class rosters
Nathaniel Woodthorpe spent his summer as an Engineering Intern working on GitHub Classroom alongside the Education Team. In this post, he'll share the features and updates he worked on for…
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…
Making it easier to grow communities on GitHub
Open source is all about building communities around shared challenges. Thanks to some subtle (and not so subtle) improvements in the past few months, it's now easier to make your…
Introducing Soft U2F, a software U2F authenticator for macOS
In an effort to increase the adoption of FIDO U2F second factor authentication, we're releasing Soft U2F—a software-based U2F authenticator for macOS. Soft U2F currently works with Google Chrome and…
Patchwork Pittsburgh
Patchwork is headed to Pittsburgh! This event is open to beginners to Git and GitHub and mentors who want to help others learn. We'll have stickers for everyone, and a…
The GitHub Diversity Report
Today I am pleased to share our second annual Diversity Report. While we are working every day internally to make GitHub the most inclusive company it can possibly be, this…
Patchwork Guadalajara
Join us for a Patchwork in beautiful Guadalajara, Mexico! This evening workshop is open to Git and GitHub beginners, as well as mentors who want to help others learn. We'll…
Clone in Xcode
It's easy to explore code in your browser when you visit a GitHub repository, but you often want to pull that code directly into the appropriate editor and try it…
Introducing GitHub Marketplace and more tools to customize your workflow
Today, we’re building on our launches at GitHub Universe 2016—making it easier than ever to evolve and customize your workflow. Find integrations and put them to work in minutes with…
Announcing updates to the GitHub Developer Program
For over three years, the GitHub Developer Program has been a launchpad for developers—from testing their newest applications to growing their biggest businesses. Now, we're excited to build on what's…
Private emails, now more private
GitHub has supported using an alternate "noreply" email address to author web-based commits for a while now. Starting today, there's another way to ensure you don't inadvertently publish your email…