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We have recently completed a milestone where we were able to drop jQuery as a dependency of the frontend code for GitHub.com. This marks the end of a gradual, years-long…

Automatically enforce protected branch settings across multiple branches in your repository.

The Octokit.NET library is now available for GitHub API v4.

If you use Python, we can now alert you whenever you depend on vulnerable packages.

This post follows the story of a GitHub intern’s experience laser cutting a contribution graph to creating an application that automates the process.

Until last week, GitHub used an Out of Band Garbage Collector (OOBGC) in production. Since removing it, we decreased CPU time across our production machines by 10%. Let’s talk about…

As more developers draw from existing code libraries to build new tools, tracking changes in dependencies like security vulnerabilities has become more difficult. Since the launch of security alerts last…

Thousands of teachers use GitHub to host their courses, distribute assignments, and get insight into student progress. Between Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and custom lessons from individual teachers, there’s plenty of materials for new teachers to adapt and reuse in their classrooms.

Last month GitHub celebrated the fourth year of our Security Bug Bounty program. As we’ve done in the past, we’re sharing some details and highlights from 2017 and looking ahead…

GitHub recently open sourced Licensed in the hopes that it is as helpful to the OSS community as it has been to us. <disclaimer> 1 of 1 consulted lawyers agree,…

2017 has been the year of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The advancements here will continue for years to come—but what can we expect in 2018? Data is on the…

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…

We’re welcoming four new apps to GitHub Marketplace—built to help you review, secure, and monitor your code. Code review AccessLint brings automated web accessibility testing into your development workflow. When…

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,…

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…

Enhance performance in high availability environments, define more granular permissions, and seamlessly review code with GitHub Enterprise 2.11. Our latest release brings together some of the most-requested features to make…

Whatever you use to build software, chances are there are ways to simplify. GitHub Marketplace brings together your favorite tools to provide the functionality and expertise you need to work…

Over the last year, GitHub has gradually evolved the infrastructure that runs the Ruby on Rails application responsible for github.com and api.github.com. We reached a big milestone recently: all web…

The biggest barrier to code review is often time, but there’s a new way to easily understand how changes impact your code. Now you can navigate to changed methods and…

A little over three years ago, we launched our Security Bug Bounty Program, a way to reward security researchers who help make GitHub more secure by reporting vulnerabilities in our…