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Anyone who has worked on a large enough codebase knows that technical debt is an inescapable reality: The more rapidly an application grows in size and complexity, the more technical…

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…

Looking through our exception tracker the other day, I ran across a notice from our slow-query logger that caught my eye. I saw a SELECT … WHERE … LIKE query…

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…

Like many sites, GitHub uses a content delivery network (CDN) to serve static assets such as JavaScript, CSS, and images to our users. The CDN makes web browsing faster by…

As VP of GitHub’s Social Impact team, I am thrilled to share some news about our upcoming conference. Conferences like GitHub Universe represent an opportunity for people from all over…

Recently we took a look at the popularity of programming languages used on GitHub.com. Below is a graph that shows the change in rank of languages since GitHub launched in…

One of the key points of GitHub’s engineering culture —and I believe, of any good engineering culture— is our obsession with aggressively measuring everything. Coda Hale’s seminal talk “Metrics, Metrics…

GitHub <3s Japan, and today we’re excited to announce the formation of GitHub Japan G.K., a subsidiary of GitHub, Inc. Our new office in Tokyo is our first official office…

At GitHub, we use a variant of the Flow pattern to deploy changes: new code is always deployed from a pull request branch, and merged only once it has been…

When a diverse set of presenters and participants comes together for a conference, everyone benefits from the variety of experiences, perspectives and voices in the room. We realize, however, that…

Most large-scale web applications incorporate at least some browser monitoring, collecting metrics about the user experience with JavaScript in the browser, but, as a community, we don’t talk much about…

Earlier this spring, we upgraded our database cluster to MySQL 5.6. Along with many other improvements, 5.6 added some exciting new features to the performance schema. MySQL’s performance schema is…

Patchwork Wellington We’re excited to announce a Patchwork hack night on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, that will be co-hosted with our friends at BizDojo at their Project: Blank Canvas space…

Providing well-written documentation helps people understand, make use of, and contribute back to your project, but it’s only half of the documentation equation. The underlying system used to serve documentation…

We’ve been including the containing branches and tags on commit pages to give you more context around changes. Now, commits in a repository’s default branch will also show you the…

The entries are in, the votes are tallied, and we’ve chosen the winners for our third annual Data Challenge! First Place Our first place winner is Issue Stats (repository), by…

To build and ship great software, you need to use the best tools available. From homegrown systems to third-party applications, integrating those tools with GitHub means better collaboration around projects,…

If you’ve been keeping an eye on your cookies, you may have noticed some recent changes GitHub has made to how we track your session. You shouldn’t notice any difference…

We’re now five installments into our talk series Passion Projects, which we created to help surface and celebrate the work of incredible women in our industry. Each of our speakers…

At GitHub, we’re big fans of traditional computer science education, and we’re also happy to see some alternative models emerging for training new programmers. There are the Massively Open Online…