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Edit: DGit is now called Spokes GitHub hosts over 35 million repositories and over 30 million Gists on hundreds of servers. Over the past year, we’ve built DGit, a new…

Last week GitHub was unavailable for two hours and six minutes. We understand how much you rely on GitHub and consider the availability of our service one of the core…

If you’re writing code, a repository is an obvious place to manage your work. But what about when the team’s primary deliverable is not software? At GitHub, the Professional Services…

At GitHub we place an emphasis on stability, availability, and performance. A large component of ensuring we excel in these areas is deploying services on bare-metal hardware. This allows us…

We want to free up your administrator’s time by providing a tool that requires little maintenance and great out-of-the-box security. By following a few simple steps, GitHub Enterprise can be…

The Systems Team at GitHub works to solve complex bugs and performance bottlenecks at the lowest levels of our infrastructure. Over the past two years we’ve undertaken a major project…

GitHub Pages, our static site hosting service, has always had a very simple architecture. From launch up until around the beginning of 2015, the entire service ran on a single…

At Microsoft Build 2015, we announced deep GitHub integration in Visual Studio 2015, along with GitHub Enterprise 2.2.0. This release will help developers who work with the Microsoft stack make…

Today we’re releasing the fastest and most flexible version of GitHub Enterprise ever, including high availability and disaster recovery options, dramatically improved LDAP and SAML integration, major improvements to features…

Today, we’re releasing an all-new GitHub Enterprise designed to make it even easier for developers and businesses around the world to use GitHub at work. Now available on Amazon Web…

At GitHub we say, “it’s not fully shipped until it’s fast.” We’ve talked before about some of the ways we keep our frontend experience speedy, but that’s only part of…

Now that you can delete files directly on GitHub we’ve reached a very exciting milestone—the entire GitHub Flow™ is now possible using nothing but a web browser. What is GitHub…

Last week, between Thursday, January 24 and Friday, January 25 we experienced a critical outage surrounding our newly-launched Code Search service. As always, we strive to provide detailed, transparent post-mortems…

Programming often involves keeping a bunch of secrets around. You’ve got account passwords, OAuth tokens, SSL and SSH private keys. The best way to keep a secret is, well, to…

On Saturday, December 22nd we had a significant outage and we want to take the time to explain what happened. This was one of the worst outages in the history…

On Friday, November 30th, GitHub had a rough day. We experienced 18 minutes of complete unavailability along with sporadic bursts of slow responses and intermittent errors for the entire day.…

Over the past few weeks, we’ve had a few service interruptions that can all be traced back to one cause – instability in our high-availability load balancer setup. Here’s a…

Here’s a summary of the outages we encountered this week and what we’re doing to prevent this from happening again. Monday January 3rd Monday marked the first “real” workday for…

Anonymous Git clones were offline this morning for several hours (SSH and HTTP clones remained functional). Several days ago we removed the client inactivity timeout from our backend HAProxy configuration…

github-rebase(1) – Forward-port awesome projects to the updated upstream head Featured Project memcached is the battle tested in-memory key/value store that helps power GitHub among countless other sites and makes…

Today we’re opening up a new site — http://status.github.com. We’ll be using this site (in addition to our twitter account) to post status updates (maintenance warnings, outages, etc). This site…