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Following up on the release of the Ruby Nanodegree program that we co-created with Udacity, we’ve extended our partnership to offer GitHub Student Developer Pack members one month of free…

Effective code review catches bugs before they’re deployed, improves code consistency, and helps educate new developers. We’re adding new features to make code review on GitHub faster and more flexible.…

One of GitHub’s niche features is the ability to access a Git repository on GitHub using Subversion clients. Last year we re-architected a large portion of the Subversion bridge to work with our changing infrastructure.

Today we’re releasing Scientist 1.0 to help you rewrite critical code with confidence. As codebases mature and requirements change, it is inevitable that you will need to replace or rewrite…

GitHub Pages is now running the latest major version of Jekyll, Jekyll 3.0, and with it, many of the complexities associated with publishing have been further simplified, meaning it’s now…

Eventually, any interesting software project will come to depend on another project, library, or framework. Git provides submodules to help with this. Submodules allow you to include or embed one…

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…

On GitHub Enterprise we’ve moved our release process to using what we like to call “Runnable Documentation”: a step-by-step series of instructions that can be run by any person without…

If you’re inspired by collaborative software design, be sure to check out these GitHub Universe sessions, which will explore how open source continues to change the way developers build great…

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…

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…

Patchwork Boulder Our next Patchwork hack night will be on Tuesday, August 18, and will be hosted at our office in Boulder, CO. 🌄 🎉 GitHubbers @elizabethn, @rubyist, @technoweenie, @mastahyeti,…

The release of GitHub Enterprise 2.0 brought more than just new features and support for deployment on Amazon Web Services. It also included a rework of our virtual machine architecture…

Like most software applications, GitHub can generate a few exceptions. Incoming exceptions range from system-level issues including Git timeouts and missing references, to application-level issues including simple code mistakes and…

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…

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…

Believe it or not, just over a year ago, GitHub Pages, the documentation hosting service that powers nearly three-quarters of a million sites, was little more than a 100-line shell…

@danishkhan & @newmerator are at RubyConf Philippines! We’d love to share a 🍺 or 🍻 with those of you that will be in the area. Please come by Ocean Bar…

Open source simply isn’t open source without a proper license. Unless you’ve explicitly told others that they can modify and reuse your work, you’ve only showed others your code; you…