Github engineering

When you’re working through a backlog—opening an issue, jumping to a linked thread, then back to the list—latency isn’t just […]

Did you know that, at GitHub, we host all of our own source code on github.com? We do this because

Pull requests are the beating heart of GitHub. As engineers, this is where we spend a good portion of our

I may have just automated myself into a completely different job… This is a familiar pattern among software engineers, who

For years, accessibility feedback at GitHub didn’t have a clear place to go. Unlike typical product feedback, accessibility issues don’t

So much of what you interact with on GitHub depends on search—obviously the search bars and filtering experiences like the

Most people think ASCII art is simple, and a nostalgic remnant of the early internet. But when the GitHub Copilot

To keep a platform like GitHub available and responsive, it’s critical to build defense mechanisms. A whole lot of them.