In the decade since the word “DevOps” was coined, its goal has stayed the same—but the way organizations implement DevOps is constantly changing. For a closer look , we sat down with Ben Sigelman, CEO | Continue reading
We’re announcing version 7 of the npm CLI is now generally available. | Continue reading
The wait is over! Applications to the GitHub Campus Experts Program are now open GitHub Education is on a mission to build communities and support emerging tech talent around the world. How? We’re looking for | Continue reading
This post is the third 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 How we made the page | Continue reading
As the world becomes more interconnected and complicated, so too does the expanse of open source ecosystems. While the majority of open source software (OSS) lies with corporate technology companies, in the last year, the | Continue reading
As GitHub doubled it’s developer head count, tooling that worked for us no longer functioned in the same capacity. We aimed to improve the deployment process for all developers at GitHub and mitigate risk associated with deploying one of the largest developer platforms in the wor … | Continue reading
Access control for GitHub Pages | Continue reading
It’s no secret that making your first contribution to open source can be intimidating. A Major League Hacking survey found that a majority of students know that contributing to open source is important for their | Continue reading
It's here, the top changes to GitHub made in 2020. If you missed out this is your go to guide for features, updates, and more. | Continue reading
On Friday, January 8th, GitHub separated with an employee. Later that day and over the weekend, employees raised concerns about the circumstances of the separation. We took these concerns seriously. On Monday, January 11th, we | Continue reading
Today, we’re making GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0 available as a release candidate. Announced in the GitHub Universe Keynote, it’s the biggest ever change to Enterprise Server, bringing customers: Actions – developer-first workflow automation and CI/CD | Continue reading
We’ve made huge advances in our security features at GitHub in 2020, with launches for code scanning, secret scanning, Dependabot version updates, dependency review, and more. | Continue reading
In December, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will provide a summary and follow-up details on how we addressed an incident mentioned in November’s report. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
All developers should be free to use GitHub, no matter where they live. At the same time, GitHub respects and abides by US law, which means government sanctions have limited our ability to provide developers | Continue reading
For the fourth year in a row, the GitHub Education team surveyed students and educators to provide faculty with information to support augmented instruction and share key insights from other instructors. GitHub Education helps students, | Continue reading
Explore over 500 fun and free games that were submitted - all with source code available! | Continue reading
How GitHub Education and Major League Hacking have teamed up to bridge the gap between school and work. | Continue reading
How GitHub Education and Major League Hacking have teamed up to bridge the gap between school and work. | Continue reading
In celebrating GitHub Security Lab’s one-year anniversary, we explained that we’re expanding our research focus. Why did we make this decision? The decision stemmed from our work with the Open Source Security Coalition (OSSC) where | Continue reading
@derrickstolee recently discussed several different git clone options, but how do those options actually affect your Git performance? Which option is fastest for your client experience? Which option is fastest for your build machines? How can these options impact | Continue reading
As your Git repositories grow, it becomes harder and harder for new developers to clone and start working on them. Git is designed as a distributed version control system. This means that you can work on your | Continue reading
Today, GitHub joined an amicus brief in NSO v. WhatsApp, opposing the expansion of foreign sovereign immunity to private cyber-surveillance companies that act on behalf of foreign governments. GitHub joined alongside Cisco, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, | Continue reading
This is the second post in a series about how we built our new homepage. In the first post, my teammate Tobias shared how we made the 3D globe come to life, with lots of | Continue reading
GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how open source development transcends the | Continue reading
A look into how adopting DevOps processes can change how orgs collaborate, automate, and build security by looking beyond CI/CD to help everyone build better together. | Continue reading
A look into how adopting DevOps processes can change how orgs collaborate, automate, and build security by looking beyond CI/CD to help everyone build better together. | Continue reading
Learn about ghapi, a third-party Python library and CLI client for the GitHub API. It includes tab-completion, integrated documentation and automatic pagination of responses. ghapi automatically manages required headers, query strings, route parameters, post data, and much more. | Continue reading
Last year at GitHub Universe, we introduced the GitHub Security Lab, which is committed to contributing resources, tooling, bounties, and security research to secure the open source ecosystem. We know this isn’t a problem that | Continue reading
Dependency review allows you to easily understand your dependencies before you introduce them to your environment. As part of a pull request, you can see what dependencies you’re introducing, changing, or removing, and information about their vulnerabilities, age, usage, and lice … | Continue reading
Changes to Code Search Indexing | Continue reading
Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that “rewrite history” such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience, the root cause of this | Continue reading
Git has a reputation for being confusing. Users stumble over terminology and phrasing that misguides their expectations. This is most apparent in commands that “rewrite history” such as git cherry-pick or git rebase. In my experience, the root cause of this | Continue reading
Good news: we removed all cookie banners from GitHub! 🎉 No one likes cookie banners. But cookie banners are everywhere. So how did we pull this off? Well, EU law requires you to use cookie | Continue reading
Part of the Building GitHub blog series. It’s four o’clock in the afternoon as you push the last tweak to your branch. Your teammate already reviewed and approved your pull request and now all that’s left | Continue reading
Beginning August 13th, 2021, we will no longer accept account passwords when authenticating Git operations on GitHub.com and will instead require token-based authentication (for example, a personal access, OAuth, or GitHub App installation token) for all authenticated Git operati … | Continue reading
Temporary interaction limits have new, powerful, and flexible updates. You can now enable interaction limits for up to six months. In addition, you can limit interactions across all your personal repositories with a single toggle. | Continue reading
Learn more about how we are bringing encapsulation to our views as we scale to over 4,500 templates in our Ruby on Rails monolith. | Continue reading
GitHub is on a mission to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration. We do that by empowering our own employees to use their creativity to learn, play, and build great things. We believe that employers | Continue reading
GitHub Campus Advisors are teachers who are enthusiastic about teaching with Git and GitHub. Whether or not they come from a technical background, they’re deeply passionate about technology and sharing what they know with others. | Continue reading
In 2021, the GitHub Campus Experts Program will be celebrating its fifth anniversary. The program has grown from a small group of handpicked students in 2016 to what it is now a group that spans | Continue reading
We detail the great momentum we’ve had with our partners at GitHub this past year, building a healthy ecosystem aimed at making our users more productive. | Continue reading
During the last year alone, over 56 million developers created more than 60 million new repos and made more than 1.9 billion contributions on GitHub. These developers are building the software we all depend on | Continue reading
Check out the latest announcements from GitHub Universe 2020, including dark mode, Sponsors for companies, improvements to Actions, and more. | Continue reading
Here's to the top Open Source releases of December 2020. There were so many good ones this month it was hard to choose. Congrats to everyone who shipped a new update. | Continue reading
GitHub Universe is almost here. For more on what to expect from this year’s stream, we sat down with virtual host, Brian Douglas, for a quick Q&A on GitHub Actions, DevOps, and automation. A lot | Continue reading
To best apply DevSecOps principles to improve the security of your supply chain, you should ask your developers to declare your dependencies in code; and in turn provide your developers with maintained ‘golden’ artifacts and automated downstream actions so they can focus on code. | Continue reading
GitHub's team delves into answering the question "what are operations roles in the development and operations (DevOps) environments". From automating the role of QA in DevOps and more for smaller, faster delivery cycles. | Continue reading