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Last month GitHub celebrated the fourth year of our Security Bug Bounty program. As we’ve done in the past, we’re sharing some details and highlights from 2017 and looking ahead…

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…

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.

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

Perform common Git operations without leaving the editor: stage changes, make commits, create and switch branches, resolve merge conflicts, and more.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…