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GitHub’s annual transparency report, 2016 edition

Patchwork is heading to Okayama, Japan

We’ve deprecated anonymous gist creation as of March 20. All existing anonymous gists will always remain accessible

Patchwork is headed to Orlando! 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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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 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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…