How we keep GitHub fast
The most important factor in web application design is responsiveness. And the first step toward responsiveness is speed. But speed within a web application is complicated. Our strategy for keeping…
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Deploying at GitHub
Deploying is a big part of the lives of most GitHub employees. We don't have a release manager and there are no set weekly deploys. Developers and designers are responsible…
Optimizing Sales for Happiness
Looking for GitHub's sales team? Please Contact Us. 10/17/14 Update from @pjhyett: Building products that people love paired with a customer-focused sales team hasn't changed, but the specifics of our…
Surviving the SSHpocolypse
Over the past few days, we have had some issues with our SSH infrastructure affecting a small number of Git SSH operations. We apologize for the inconvenience, and are happy…
Designing GitHub for Windows
This article hasn't been updated in a while. For the most current information, please refer to the docs and the Desktop website. Today, I thought it would be fun to…
The Making of Octicons
In our last post we announced Octicons, our new icon font. We put a lot of work into the font and gained a lot of knowledge in the process. With…
ReactiveCocoa for a better world
Native apps spend a lot of time waiting and then reacting. We wait for the user to do something in the UI. Wait for a network call to respond. Wait…
How we use Pull Requests to build GitHub
We recently shipped a new About section. It has all sorts of stuff like high resolution logos, pictures of the GitHub team, a little bit about our story, recent press…
Akavache is now open source
Today, we're open-sourcing a library that we have been using at GitHub: Akavache. Akavache is an asynchronous, persistent key-value cache created for writing native desktop and mobile applications in C#.…
Fileserver Maintenance Wednesday Night
We'll be performing some scheduled maintenance on a fileserver pair this Wednesday (April 25th, 2012) at 9PM PDT. A small percentage of repositories will be placed in maintenance mode for…
All of the Hooks
Over three years ago, @pjhyett launched GitHub Services with just four services: Campfire, IRC, Lighthouse, and Twitter. Since then, 124 other people contributed to a total of 68 third-party services.…
Gist creation in 5 lines with Java v3 API
As part of the Mylyn connector announcement last week a new stand-alone Java library was released for accessing GitHub API v3. Below is a 5 line example showing how to…
Those are some big numbers
Every night, our friendly Hubot pops into one of our Campfire rooms and posts some numbers. Turns out we passed some pretty significant numbers in the past couple days. And…
Reply to Comments from Email
You should notice a small change to the From address on your email notifications now: they're no longer from no-reply@github.com. We're now accepting replies from most email notifications that you'll…
Scheduled Maintenance Tonight at 22:00 PST
We will be performing scheduled maintenance tonight from 22:00 to 22:20 PST. During this window GitHub and all Git access will be entirely unavailable for a short period while we…