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Last year, GitHub brought 24 million people from almost 200 countries together to code better and build bigger. From frameworks to data visualizations across more than 25 million repositories, you…

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…

It’s time to celebrate a fresh round of releases from our community—many of them 1.0s! The open source projects in this month’s Release Radar are supported by the Apache foundation…

With issues like net neutrality and digital news curation in headlines every day, we’re seeing the effects of the growing role that technology has in our lives more than ever.…

Before your 2018 calendar fills up, start planning your trip to Barcelona on March 8 for Git Merge—an event dedicated to the developer community’s favorite version control tool. Whether you’re…

Two years ago, we breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed the Open Internet Order—regulations allowing people to freely access and interact with information…

Another Hacktoberfest has come and gone, and we couldn’t be more proud of your contributions. With over 200,000 merged pull requests in almost 65,000 repositories, you made this our biggest…

Several years ago, Jekyll, the open source project that powers GitHub Pages, introduced shared themes. Since then, you have been able to use about a dozen themes to change the…

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…

Last month, we made it easier for you to keep track of the projects your code depends on with the dependency graph, currently supported in Javascript and Ruby. Today, for…

Wilhelm Klopp is a student at University College London (UCL), a Campus Expert, and creator of Simple Poll—one of the most popular Slack integrations. He spent the summer of 2017…

Writing code with other developers can be a great way to onboard teammates, get to know how your peers think, and learn new skills. Unfortunately, writing code together can be…

Continuous Integration (CI) tools help you stick to your team’s quality standards by running tests every time you push a new commit and reporting the results to a pull request.…

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…

This month, GitHub penned a letter urging the United States Senate and House of Representatives to support open source provisions in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets…

If you’re an open source maintainer, it’s time to get your repository ready for Hacktoberfest. Why? Communities grow during Hacktoberfest. Just ask Peter Tseng, now a core contributor of Exercism,…

This week, more than 1,000 developers from around the world joined us at Pier 70 in San Francisco for our flagship conference. We learned new skills in workshops, heard from…

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,…

Universe is just around the corner and we wanted to take one more opportunity to acknowledge our 2017 Community Partners. The following incredible organizations were kind enough to assist with…

We’re kicking off Cyber Security month with a few projects to help up your security game with the tools and know-how to protect yourself from common vulnerabilities. These are the…