 The 2008 Rails Rumble is set to start tonight at midnight and we’ll be sponsoring the competition in two ways. First, we’re providing free private repositories for each of…
Into Grails? Check out GrailsCrowd – the new Grails community site. Hosted right here on GitHub, they’ve already got over 750 registered members. Nice works guys. 
Carlos Brando and Marcos Tapajós have written a book on Rails 2.1 in Portuguese which is now being translating into English – right here on GitHub! If you want to…
If you didn’t catch Scott’s awesome Git talk at Railsconf today, you missed out. Luckily he’s posted his slides at http://www.gitcasts.com/git-talk.
RailsConf 2008 (and CabooseConf) is about to begin. If you’re heading to Portland, say hi. We’ll have t-shirts and stickers, as well as a big banner in the Engine Yard…
Ruby on Rails is moving to Git and GitHub. Super cool. I particularly like the comment from AkitaOnRails: Right now, everybody is playing catch-up with Git, Git-svn and Github, no…
Installing a Rails plugin from GitHub is now as simple as: ./script/plugin install git://github.com/pjhyett/auto_migrations.git Sweet! Thanks to all involved for making it happen, the changeset is here. Now, to figure…
To celebrate two decades of Git, we sat down with Linus Torvalds—the creator of Git and Linux—to discuss how it forever changed software development.
How GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team manages our CodeQL implementation at scale and how you can, too.
In August, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Solving and staying ahead of problems when scaling up a system of GitHub’s size is a delicate process. Here’s a look at some of the tools in GitHub’s toolbox, and how we’ve used them to solve problems.
GitHub Staff Engineer Sarah Vessels discusses her philosophy of code review, what separates good code review from bad, her strategy for finding and reviewing code, and how to get the most from reviews of her own code.
Can an attacker execute arbitrary commands on a remote server just by sending JSON? Yes, if the running code contains unsafe deserialization vulnerabilities. But how is that possible? In this blog post, we’ll describe how unsafe deserialization vulnerabilities work and how you can detect them in Ruby projects.
Pushing code to GitHub is one of the most fundamental interactions that developers have with GitHub every day. Read how we have significantly improved the ability of our monolith to correctly and fully process pushes from our users.
CodeQL is the static analysis engine that powers GitHub code scanning. CodeQL version 2.17.1 has been released and has now been rolled out to code scanning users on GitHub.com. CodeQL…
As the year winds down, we’re highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers.
Take CODEOWNERS and GitHub teams to the next level. Learn about how GitHub engineering solves the age old problem of who owns what.
GitHub uses MySQL to store vast amounts of relational data. This is the story of how we seamlessly upgraded our production fleet to MySQL 8.0.
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
The team behind GitHub Copilot shares its lessons for building an LLM app that delivers value to both individuals and enterprise users at scale.
Edge computing practitioners answer your questions about when and why to build applications at the edge.
Build what’s next on GitHub, the place for anyone from anywhere to build anything.
