Tom Preston-Werner

We’ve had a number of inquiries into why we chose ldirectord as our primary load balancer for the new GitHub architecture. As I’ve mentioned before (and more on this later),…

At 07:53 PDT this morning the site was hit with an abnormal number of SSH connections. The script that runs after an SSH connection is accepted makes an RPC call…

As I detailed in How We Made GitHub Fast, we have created a new data serialization and RPC protocol to power the GitHub backend. We have big plans for these…

Now that things have settled down from the move to Rackspace, I wanted to take some time to go over the architectural changes that we’ve made in order to bring…

We will be having a maintenance window tonight from [2](00 to 23:59 PDT”:http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=18&year=2009&hour=23&min=0&sec=0&p1=224). A very small amount of web unavailability will be required during this period. We will be upgrading…

We’re having another maintenance window tonight from [2](00 to 23:00 PDT”:http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=15&year=2009&hour=22&min=0&sec=0&p1=224). We will be installing and testing the “sorry server” that will be enabled if no frontends are available to…

We had an outage this morning from 06:32 to 07:42 PDT. One of the file servers experienced an unusually high load that caused the heartbeat monitor on that file server…

On Sunday, September 27th at 5PM Pacific time (see it in your timezone) we will begin the final move to Rackspace. We are aiming to have less than an hour…

In just a few short weeks we will be moving GitHub to a new home at Rackspace. We’re aware of the current stability and performance issues, and we want to…

I’ve written a blog post over at my personal blog that you all may enjoy. It’s about learning git by looking at how a Git-like system could be built from…

Are you part of a US city, state, or federal government organization that uses GitHub for your source hosting? Do you belong to a government-oriented non-profit that uses GitHub? Do…

Please welcome @qrush (Nick Quaranto) to the core Jekyll team (now consisting of the two of us)! img http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/eb8975af8e49e19e3dd6b6b84a542e26?s=200 He’ll be helping me keep Jekyll active and awesome by assisting…

img http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/images/gfm.png The move to GitHub Flavored Markdown for all messages and comments on the site is now complete! Any comments or messages created after 2009-04-20 19:00:00 UTC will be…

It gives us great pleasure to announce our integrated issue tracking system! On repository pages you’ll now see an “Issues” tab in the top menu. Here’s a quick rundown of…

I just released Jekyll 0.5.0 which contains a huge overhaul that allows you to specify options in a _config.yml file. GitHub Pages will honor most of these settings, so if…