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Engineering blogs from the teams building the internet — short publisher excerpts, linked to the source.
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github.blogWe’re rebuilding GitHub’s Git infrastructure while GitHub keeps running, creating a foundation for agent-scale software development.
github.blogPut native GitHub features to work to review outside collaborator access and archive stale repositories.
github.blogOur new repo star history API now provides trends without returning individual identities or requiring unbounded database work. These are the engineering tradeoffs we made.
github.blogFrom the archive 2021
At GitHub, we pride ourselves on delivering a first-class developer experience. A considerable part of our work is on our front end, which we strive to keep as lightweight, fast,…
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github.blogHow we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS.
github.blogFrom the archive 2017
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.…
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github.blogHow a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at >45 GiB/s on a single core.
github.blogFrom the archive 2017
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…
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github.blogHow the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant.
github.blogFrom the archive 2020
At GitHub, we spend a lot of time thinking about and building secure products—and one key facet of that is threat modeling. This practice involves bringing security and engineering teams…
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github.blogUser feedback led us to clean up outdated mitigations. See why observability and lifecycle management are critical for defense systems.
github.blogFrom the archive 2015
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…
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