Search results for: REST API

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to build a GitHub App from scratch.

GitHub for Visual Studio 2.5.4 introduces new pull request improvements and easier navigation between GitHub.com and Visual Studio.

Featuring a handful of homebrew NES games, opportunities to get into game development, and more!

Automate away some of the pain points in your open source projects with these free GitHub Apps.

A list of open source releases that caught our attention last month.

GitHub uses MySQL as its main datastore for all things non-git, and its availability is critical to GitHub’s operation. The site itself, GitHub’s API, authentication and more, all require database…

This post follows the story of a GitHub intern’s experience laser cutting a contribution graph to creating an application that automates the process.

This month’s roundup includes a JS-based terminal emulator, a small and flexible Python framework, a state container for JavaScript, and more

We’re making it easier for maintainers to grow healthy open source communities on GitHub with minimized comments, retired namespaces for popular projects, and new pull request requirements.

How we use Figma files to keep the Octicons icon library up to date

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.