How we ship GitHub Mobile every week

Every week, the GitHub Mobile team updates the GitHub Mobile apps on both iOS and Android with new features, bug fixes and improvements. Shipping a mobile app is not an easy task. Before a build goes out to our users’ hands, we must make sure the end result is properly built, all written tests are passed, and any critical issues are captured by testing....

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GitHub Availability Report: December 2021

In December, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services. Please follow our status page for real time updates. To learn more about what we’re working on, check out the GitHub engineering blog.

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Technical interviews via Codespaces

Technical interviews are the worst. Getting meaningful signal from candidates without wasting their time is notoriously hard. Thankfully, the industry has come a long way from brainteaser-style questions and interviews requiring candidates to balance a binary tree with dry erase markers in front of a group of strangers. There are more valuable ways...

Dec 2021

A brief history of code search at GitHub

We recently launched a technology preview for the next-generation code search we have been building. If you haven’t signed up already, go ahead and do it now! We want to share more about our work on code exploration, navigation, search, and developer productivity. Recently, we substantially improved the precision of our code navigation for Python,...

Dec 2021

Introducing stack graphs

Today, we announced the general availability of precise code navigation for all public and private Python repositories on GitHub.com. Precise code navigation is powered by stack graphs, a new open source framework we’ve created that lets you define the name binding rules for a programming language using a declarative, domain-specific language (DSL)....

Dec 2021

Improving GitHub code search

Today, we are rolling out a technology preview for substantial improvements to searching code on GitHub. We want to give you an early look at our efforts and get your feedback as we iterate on helping you explore and discover code—all while saving you time and keeping you focused. Sign up for the waitlist now, and give us your feedback! Getting started...

Dec 2021

GitHub Availability Report: November 2021

In November, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for core GitHub services, including GitHub Actions, API Requests, Codespaces, Git Operations, Issues, GitHub Packages, GitHub Pages, Pull Requests, and Webhooks. November 27 20:40 UTC (lasting 2 hours and 50 minutes) We encountered a novel failure...

Dec 2021

Using ChatOps to help Actions on-call engineers

At GitHub, we use ChatOps to help us collaborate seamlessly. They’re implemented using our favorite chatbot, Hubot. Running a ChatOps command is similar to running commands on your terminal, except that teammates can see what you ran and see the results if the commands are invoked from Slack. This enables real time collaboration. This is especially...

Dec 2021

5 DevOps tips to speed up your developer workflow

TL;DR: From learning YAML to scripting with Bash, here are a few simple tips for developers who want to speed up their workflows. From CI/CD to containerization management and server provisioning, DevOps gets a lot of buzz in tech today. You could even say that it’s a buzz … word. As a developer, you might be part of a DevOps team, but you’re...

Nov 2021

GraphQL global ID migration update

We are pleased to announce that we have now completed the first phase of rolling out the new GraphQL global ID format. This means that all newly created GraphQL objects have IDs that conform to a new format, which we refer to as next IDs. It also means we’ve hit a major milestone as we work towards improving our scalability and speed. In this post,...

Nov 2021