Today, we are excited to reveal the amazing maintainer stories of the 11 open source AI projects selected for the second cohort of the GitHub Accelerator Showcase. Congratulations to all 11 projects and maintainers on what you have accomplished! This is a celebration of developers building the future of open source AI and inviting you to join them...

Solving and staying ahead of problems when scaling up a system of GitHub’s size is a delicate process. The stack is complex, and even small changes can have a big ripple effect. Here’s a look at some of the tools in GitHub’s toolbox, and how we’ve used them to solve problems. We’ll also share some of our wins and lessons we learned along the way. Methods...

As a staff engineer at GitHub, code review is one of my main focus areas in my day to day work. Over the past eight years, I’ve reviewed more than 7,000 pull requests. Why so many? Because code review is crucial to building good software and another set of eyes can often spot issues you would have otherwise missed. I see code review as one of the...

Kafka UI is a popular open source web application designed to manage and monitor Apache Kafka clusters. It is used mainly by developers and administrators to provide visual representation of the connected Kafka clusters. Some users may not be aware that in its default configuration, Kafka UI does not require authentication to read and write data....

We launched the GitHub Innovation Graph to make it easier for researchers, policymakers, and developers to access longitudinal metrics on software development for economies around the world. We’re pleased to report that researchers are indeed finding the Innovation Graph to be a useful resource, and with today’s Q1 2024 data release, I’m excited to...

In June, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. June 05 17:05 UTC (lasting 142 minutes) On June 5, between 17:05 UTC and 19:27 UTC, the GitHub Issues service was degraded. During that time, events related to projects were not displayed on issue timelines. These events indicate when an issue was added...