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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…

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…

At its core, open source is about collaboration. Whether it’s version control, licenses, or issue trackers—everything exists to support people working with each other. Open source embodies a model for…

To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Meet Richard Davey, the game developer behind Phaser — a free open source…

We shipped subresource integrity a few months back to reduce the risk of a compromised CDN serving malicious JavaScript. That is a big win, but does not address related content…

To stimulate the growth and show our support of the student hacker community, we’ve partnered with Major League Hacking (MLH) to provide each new member hackathon with a $1,000 grant…