GitHub Token Scanning—one billion tokens identified and five new partners
Token scanning has reached a new milestone: one billion tokens identified. We’ve also added five new partners—Atlassian, Dropbox, Discord, Proctorio, and Pulumi.
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Engineering
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. But no matter what scale you’re operating at, the fundamental question for an engineering team boils down to how to optimize for developer productivity, collaboration, and security, in concert. Hear from the folks on the frontlines about how we’re building our own platform securely and improving our own developer experiences, not only to be more productive, collaborative, and secure but also to be creative, happier, and produce the best work of our lives.
Commit signing support for bots and other GitHub Apps
Commit signing is now enabled for all bots by default.
SSH certificate authentication for GitHub Enterprise Cloud
Enterprise and organization admins can now register their SSH certificate authorities with GitHub, helping their team access repositories over Git using SSH certificates.
Direct instruction marking in Ruby 2.6
We recently upgraded GitHub to use the latest version of Ruby 2.6. Ruby 2.6 contains an optimization for reducing memory usage.
Five years of the GitHub Bug Bounty program
Read about some big changes for the coming year: full legal protection for researchers, more GitHub properties eligible for rewards, and increased reward amounts.
Introducing the new GitHub Status Site
Performance and reliability conversations as a GitHub product
Behind the scenes of GitHub Token Scanning
We’ve extended GitHub Token Scanning to include tokens from cloud service providers and additional credentials.
Applying machine intelligence to GitHub security alerts
Learn how we use machine learning to power and build on security alerts and make GitHub more secure.
Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2
On August 15th GitHub celebrated a major milestone: our main application is now running on the latest version of Rails: 5.2.1! 🎉 In total the project took a year and…
Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend
We have recently completed a milestone where we were able to drop jQuery as a dependency of the frontend code for GitHub.com. This marks the end of a gradual, years-long…
GLB: GitHub’s open source load balancer
At GitHub, we serve tens of thousands of requests every second out of our network edge, operating on GitHub’s metal cloud. We’ve previously introduced GLB, our scalable load balancing solution…
MySQL High Availability at GitHub
GitHub uses MySQL as its main datastore for all things non-git, and its availability is critical to GitHub’s operation. The site itself, GitHub’s API, authentication and more, all require database…
Using Figma designs to build the Octicons icon library
How we use Figma files to keep the Octicons icon library up to date
Mitigating replication lag and reducing read load with freno
At GitHub, we use MySQL as the main database technology backing our services. We run classic MySQL master-replica setups, where writes go to the master, and replicas replay master’s changes asynchronously. To be able to serve our traffic we read data from the MySQL replicas.
Stretching Spokes
GitHub’s Spokes system stores multiple distributed copies of Git repositories. This article discusses how we got Spokes replication to span widely separated datacenters. Background: Spokes GitHub developed a system called…
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