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Improving Deployment Experience at GitHub
The GitHub engineering team recently blogged about how they redesigned their deployment approach due to the rapid growth of the engineering that exposed some problems with existing tooling.
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SPACE, a New Framework to Understand and Measure Developer Productivity
A recent paper by researchers at GitHub, University of Victoria, and Microsoft delves into developer productivity to propose a new approach to defining, measuring and predicting it. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with the paper lead author, GitHub vice-president of research & strategy Nicole Forsgren.
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Reliable Deployments at GitHub
The GitHub engineering team recently blogged about how they ensure fast and reliable deployments. Raffaele Di Fazio, software engineer at GitHub, provided a deep dive into the deployment mechanics at GitHub.
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The Journey from Monolith to Microservices at GitHub: QCon Plus Q&A
GitHub needed to fundamentally rethink how they did software development due to all of the different cultures, norms, and technology stacks that their teams brought to the table. They are migrating toward a microservices architecture that enables different teams and systems and technologies to work harmoniously together.
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Github Removes All Non-Essential Cookies
GitHub recently announced having removed all banners from GitHub. GitHub additionally commits to only use in the future cookies that are essential to serving GitHub.com.
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DigitalOcean Enters PaaS with App Platform
Specifically targeted at developers, DigitalOcean App Platform aims to make application development a matter of point-and-click. This new offering fills the gap between DigitalOcean Droplets and Kuberbetes-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service products. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with DigitalOcean vice president of products Apurva Joshi to learn more.
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GitHub Code Scanning Is out of Beta
One year ago GitHub announced the acquisition of Semmle, maker of a semantic code analysis engine powered by the Semmle QL query language. After a few months in beta, GitHub is now announcing the availability of its new CodeQL-based code scanning capability for all public and private repos.
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Hacked off with Hacktoberfest
Hacktoberfest is a promotion that Digital Ocean runs to encourage developers to contribute patches to open-source repositories hosted on GitHub in exchange for a free T-shirt. This year, however, there have been complaints by many open-source contributions being made that add little or no value to projects on GitHub, which is causing some strain on the community. InfoQ investigates.
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New GitHub Repositories Default to Main Branch
All newly created GitHub repositories will default to 'main' for their main branch from today. In addition, existing repositories can also rename the 'master' branch; read on to find out why you might want to do this, and the support that GitHub is providing to make this transition seamless.
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OpenJDK Completes Migration to GitHub
OpenJDK has completed the transition from Mercurial to GitHub as planned in September 2020. GitHub offers various benefits such as increased performance and support for code reviews. InfoQ reported in June about the change in more detail.
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The JavaScript Coder's Guide to Getting More from GitHub and Npm - GitHub Satellite 2020
Edward Thomson, npm product manager at GitHub, recently explained at GitHub Satellite 2020 the implications of npm joining GitHub for JavaScript developers and how to get the best out of GitHub for both open source and professional work.
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Visual Studio Codespaces Is Now GitHub Codespaces
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that Visual Studio Codespaces is consolidating into GitHub Codespaces. Visual Studio Codespaces is a cloud-based, on-demand development environment similar to Gitpod. The consolidated product supports Azure Functions and can be used with Visual Studio 2019, Visual Studio Code, and modern browsers.
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GitHub CLI Reaches 1.0, Enables Scripting CI/CD Workflows
Released in beta last February, GitHub CLI has now reached version 1.0. According to GitHub, you can use GitHub CLI for your entire workflow from issues to reviews to releases. In addition, you can script the GitHub API to automate any available action.
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GitHub Availability Report: Monthly Report Examining Incidents
Going beyond publishing the post mortem of major incidents, GitHub recently introduced the Availability Report. This report will not only have a description of incidents but also highlight what is being done to advance GitHub's engineering systems and practices.
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Web Components at GitHub - Web Component SF Meetup
Kristján Oddsson detailed at the Web Components SF meetup how GitHub uses Web Components and the patterns GitHub identified to foster readable, performant, and accessible front end components.