The latest blogs from GitHub

Explore the latest blogs from GitHub on all things software development from the newest capabilities on the GitHub platform to research and insights—and guides to help you level up your engineering skills.

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Game Off, our annual game jam returns in November
Game Off—our fifth annual game jam returns in just two weeks! A game jam is a hackathon for creating video games. Although most game jams run for 24-72 hours, the…October 19, 2017
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Doubling Bug Bounty rewards
We’re coming up on four years since the Bug Bounty program was first announced. A lot has changed in that time, and we constantly try to keep our reward structure…October 18, 2017
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Get started with Hacktoberfest
If you’re an open source maintainer, it’s time to get your repository ready for Hacktoberfest. Why? Communities grow during Hacktoberfest. Just ask Peter Tseng, now a core contributor of Exercism,…October 17, 2017
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Mission report: GitHub Universe 2017
This week, more than 1,000 developers from around the world joined us at Pier 70 in San Francisco for our flagship conference. We learned new skills in workshops, heard from…Stephanie WillsOctober 17, 2017
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Level up your workflow with these new Marketplace Apps
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…October 17, 2017
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Mitigating replication lag and reducing read load with freno
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.October 13, 2017
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Stretching Spokes
GitHub’s Spokes system stores multiple distributed copies of Git repositories. This article discusses how we got Spokes replication to span widely separated datacenters. Background: Spokes GitHub developed a system called…October 13, 2017
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GitHub now works directly with AWS CodeStar
From code review and project management to deployment and monitoring, you can choose the exact tools your workflow needs among hundreds of apps and services available on the GitHub platform.…October 12, 2017
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Evolution of GitHub’s data centers
Over the past 18 months we’ve made a significant investment in GitHub’s physical infrastructure. The goal of this work is to improve the redundancy and global availability of our system.…October 12, 2017
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Transit and Peering: How your requests reach GitHub
GitHub is at a scale that provides exposure to interesting aspects of running a major site and are working to mature and level-up many parts of our infrastructure as we…October 12, 2017
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A more connected universe
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,…Jason WarnerOctober 11, 2017
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Webcast recap: Driving secure, collaborative development
Security is an essential part of any engineering organization—especially in regulated industries, like automotive. In our recent webcast, “Driving secure, collaborative development”, GitHub Solutions Engineer Phil Holleran walked through GitHub…October 9, 2017
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Diversity and inclusion at GitHub Universe
Universe is just around the corner and we wanted to take one more opportunity to acknowledge our 2017 Community Partners. The following incredible organizations were kind enough to assist with…Bianca EscalanteOctober 9, 2017
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Release Radar · October 2017
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…October 7, 2017
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Project note summary cards bring more context into your boards
Now you can get a more complete overview of the work going into your project without leaving your project board. When you reference an issue or pull request in a…October 6, 2017
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GitHub Universe is almost here
Our flagship conference is just a week away, and tickets are almost sold out! Don’t miss your chance to hear about some of our biggest product ships, learn from industry…Brittany WalkerOctober 4, 2017
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Celebrate open source this October with Hacktoberfest
Celebrate open source this October by participating in the fourth annual Hacktoberfest, a month-long celebration of open source software in partnership with DigitalOcean. Last year, contributors from 114 countries submitted…September 27, 2017
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Inline comments in GitHub for Visual Studio
GitHub for Visual Studio 2.3 adds the ability to comment on pull requests directly from your IDE. Simply open a pull request in the GitHub pane in Visual Studio, and…September 22, 2017
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New in the GitHub Shop: Octocat laptop decals
Looking for a new way to protect your laptop and stand out from the crowd? We’ve got two new game-inspired decals that are ready to shield your laptop against unforeseen…September 19, 2017
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Announcing GitHub Desktop 1.0
Collaborating on GitHub with the power of a GUI application just got easier! GitHub Desktop 1.0 is now available. A few months ago, we completely redesigned and reimplemented GitHub Desktop…September 19, 2017
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GitHub Debug
GitHub is proud to handle thousands of requests per second from our millions of users. The Internet, however, can be a fickle beast of cables and sparks, and sometimes those…September 19, 2017
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