The GitHub Ruby on Rails monolith is big: nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborating on it, to the tune of around 20 deployments every day. To operate at that scale, while providing a performant and highly available experience to the millions of developers who rely on our platform, we dive deep into software development fundamentals. Follow along to see how we build and continually improve the tools you use every day.
Today we released the new GitHub Desktop Beta, rewritten on Electron.Electron is a well-known on-ramp for web developers to build desktop apps using familiar web technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
We serve a lot of diffs here at GitHub. Because it is computationally expensive to generate and display a diff, we’ve traditionally had to apply some very conservative limits on…
Edit: DGit is now called Spokes GitHub hosts over 35 million repositories and over 30 million Gists on hundreds of servers. Over the past year, we’ve built DGit, a new…
GitHub.com no longer delivers its icons via icon font. Instead, we’ve replaced all the Octicons throughout our codebase with SVG alternatives. While the changes are mostly under-the-hood, you’ll immediately feel…
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