Increasing developer happiness with GitHub code scanning

You probably already know about using GitHub code scanning to secure your code. But how about using it to make your day-to-day coding easier? We’ve been making internal use of CodeQL, our code analysis engine for code scanning, to keep code quality high by protecting ourselves from those annoying coding mistakes that are easy to make but hard to spot!...

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GitHub Availability Report: August 2021

In August, we experienced two distinct incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for Git operations, API requests, webhooks, issues, pull requests, GitHub Pages, GitHub Packages, and GitHub Actions services. August 10 15:16 UTC (lasting one hour and 17 minutes) This incident was caused when one of our MySQL database...

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GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces

Today, GitHub is making Codespaces available to Team and Enterprise Cloud plans on github.com. Codespaces provides software teams a faster, more collaborative development environment in the cloud. Read more on our Codespaces page. The GitHub.com codebase is almost 14 years old. When the first commit for GitHub.com was pushed, Rails was only two years...

Aug 2021

GitHub Availability Report: July 2021

In July, 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.

Aug 2021

Adding support for cross-cluster associations to Rails 7

Ever since we made the leap at GitHub to upgrade off our fork of Rails and worked hard to stay up to date with the latest releases, we’ve consistently looked for ways to improve the Rails framework upstream. We do this in many ways – running GitHub off of Rails main, reporting and fixing bugs we find, and most importantly pushing functionality upstream...

Jul 2021

GitHub Availability Report: June 2021

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

Jul 2021

A framework for building Open Graph images

You know that feeling when you make your latest hack project public, and you’re ready to share it with the world? And when you go to Twitter to post a link to your repository, you just see a big picture of yourself? We wanted to make that a better experience. We recently set about creating a framework and service for automatically generating social...

Jun 2021

GitHub Availability Report: May 2021

Introduction In May, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for API requests, GitHub Pages, GitHub Actions and the GitHub Packages service, specifically the GitHub Packages Container registry service. May 8 06:46 UTC (46 minutes) This incident was caused by failures in an underlying MySQL database,...

Jun 2021

Why (and how) GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry

Over the years, GitHub engineers have developed many ways to observe how our systems behave. We mostly make use of statsd for metrics, the syslog format for plain text logs and OpenTracing for request traces. While we have somewhat standardized what we emit, we tend to solve the same problems over and over in each new system we develop. And, while...

May 2021

GitHub Artifact Exporter open source release

GitHub is the home for software development teams and is the place where they collaborate and build. For larger organizations, you might have a dedicated reporting team that wants to export this activity at a granular level, so it can be modified and presented for audits. GitHub provides a powerful API for accessing this data programmatically, but we...

May 2021