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Over the course of a year, GitHub’s engineers make millions of commits across all of our internal repositories, process billions of API requests, and run tens of thousands of deployments across the internal apps that power GitHub’s services. We use many of GitHub’s products and plenty of other open source tools to operate at this scale. Here’s an inside look into how we do it.
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GitHub Issues search now supports nested queries and boolean operators: Here’s how we (re)built it
Plus, considerations in updating one of GitHub’s oldest and most heavily used features.
Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components
The Accessibility Design team created a set of annotations to bridge the gaps that design systems alone can’t fix and proactively addresses accessibility issues within Primer components.
Building a more accessible GitHub CLI
How do we translate web accessibility standards to command line applications? This is GitHub CLI’s journey toward making terminal experiences for all developers.
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Design system annotations, part 2: Advanced methods of annotating components
How to build custom annotations for your design system components or use Figma’s Code Connect to help capture important accessibility details before development.
How the GitHub CLI can now enable triangular workflows
The GitHub CLI now supports common Git configurations for triangular workflows. Learn more about triangular workflows, how they work, and how to configure them for your Git workflows. Then, see how you can leverage these using the GitHub CLI.
Introducing sub-issues: Enhancing issue management on GitHub
Explore the iterative development journey of GitHub’s sub-issues feature. Learn how we leveraged sub-issues to build and refine sub-issues, breaking down larger tasks into smaller, manageable ones.
How engineers can use one-on-ones with their manager to accelerate career growth
Go beyond status updates and use these meetings to surface challenges, solve problems, and drive impact.
IssueOps: Automate CI/CD (and more!) with GitHub Issues and Actions
A look into building IssueOps workflows on GitHub to do everything from CI/CD to handling approvals and more.
Finding leaked passwords with AI: How we built Copilot secret scanning
Passwords are notoriously difficult to detect with conventional programming approaches. AI can help us find passwords better because it understands context. This blog post will explore the technical challenges we faced with building the feature and the novel and creative ways we solved them.
How to debug code with GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot can streamline your debugging process by troubleshooting in your IDE, analyzing pull requests, and more, helping you tackle issues faster and more robustly.
How GitHub uses CodeQL to secure GitHub
How GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team manages our CodeQL implementation at scale and how you can, too.
Considerations for making a tree view component accessible
A deep dive on the work that went into making the component that powers repository and pull request file trees.
Breaking down CPU speed: How utilization impacts performance
The Performance Engineering team at GitHub assessed how CPU performance degrades as utilization increases and how this relates to capacity.
How to make Storybook Interactions respect user motion preferences
With this custom addon, you can ensure your workplace remains accessible to users with motion sensitivities while benefiting from Storybook’s Interactions.
GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency: How we built the next evolution of GitHub Enterprise using GitHub
How we used GitHub to build GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency.
The ultimate guide to developer happiness
Five actionable tips and strategies to supercharge developer happiness—and a more innovative workplace.
How GitHub supports neurodiverse employees (and how your company can, too)
Teams with neurodivergent employees can be up to 30 percent more productive. Discover tips on how best to support them in your workplace.
How we improved availability through iterative simplification
Solving and staying ahead of problems when scaling up a system of GitHub’s size is a delicate process. Here’s a look at some of the tools in GitHub’s toolbox, and how we’ve used them to solve problems.
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