Engineering principles

We’ve always used GitHub to build GitHub. Thanks to our tools, asynchronous communication has been baked into how we operate from the very beginning. Over the years, we’ve also adopted practices from the open source community for our own internal collaboration needs. Learn more about how we work with a global and diverse team and make informed, inclusive, and scalable decisions.

Reducing flaky builds by 18x

Part of the Building GitHub blog series. It’s four o’clock in the afternoon as you push the last tweak to your branch. Your teammate already reviewed and approved your pull request…

How we launched docs.github.com

ICYMI: docs.github.com is the new place to discover all of GitHub’s product documentation! We recently completed a major overhaul of GitHub’s documentation websites. When you visit docs.github.com today, you’ll see…

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Move Fast and Fix Things

Anyone who has worked on a large enough codebase knows that technical debt is an inescapable reality: The more rapidly an application grows in size and complexity, the more technical…

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GitHub Universe 2024

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