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Over the years, GitHub engineers have developed many ways to observe how our systems behave. We mostly make use of statsd for metrics, the syslog format for plain text logs…

At GitHub, we pride ourselves on delivering a first-class developer experience. A considerable part of our work is on our front end, which we strive to keep as lightweight, fast,…

Earlier this month, we challenged you to a Call to Hacktion—a CTF (Capture the Flag) competition to put your GitHub Workflow security skills to the test. Participants were invited to…

On March 8, we shared that, out of an abundance of caution, we logged all users out of GitHub.com due to a rare security vulnerability. We believe that transparency is…

The world runs on software, and a large portion of it, especially the open source software that’s part of everything we experience, is built by millions of developers on GitHub…

This post is the fifth installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…

Last week, we described how we improved the deployment experience for github.com. When we describe deployments at GitHub, the deployment experience is an important part of what it takes to ship applications to production, especially at GitHub’s scale, but there is more to it: the actual deployment mechanics need to be fast and reliable.

GitHub’s engineering group moved from a monolithic, hero-based on-call rotation to a more balanced on-call culture in order to increase our on-call expertise and improve the experience for our customers.

This is the second post in a series about how we built our new homepage. How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…

Using deferred compliance in GitHub’s CI process to improve developer productivity.

A lot of work went into figuring out how to sync a public and private docs repo.

GitHub recently upgraded to Ruby 2.7. Learn how the team approached the deprecation warnings, why upgrading is important, and the notable performance improvements.

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

What is the Availability Report? Historically, GitHub has published post-incident reviews for major incidents that impact service availability. Whether we’re sharing new investments to infrastructure or detailing site downtimes, our…

Setting up a new repository with all the right linters for the different types of code can be time consuming and tedious. So many tools and configurations to choose from…

Check out Alyson La’s favorite tips for getting started with Git and GitHub. Get into the GitHub Flow, try out a few tools, practice merge conflicts, and more!

Check out Lee Reilly’s top ten tips and tricks to help you hack your GitHub experience. You won’t believe tip number eight!

Learn more about the Bug Bounty program, including a recap of 2019’s bugs, our expanded scope, new features, and more.

GitHub Education introduces two new features to help you shape the next generation of software developers, with the GitHub Teacher Toolbox and more automation for GitHub Classroom.

In this deep dive, we cover how our daily schema migrations amounted to a significant toil on the database infrastructure team, and how we searched for a solution to automate the manual parts of the process.

To celebrate 365 days of achievements, let’s look back at the code and communities built on GitHub this year.