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Architecture & Design

From Monolith to Microservices

Sha Ma discusses how GitHub migrates from a monolith architecture to microservices, detailing some best practices.

Sha Ma
on Apr 09, 2021

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Development

Securing Software from the Supply Side

Nickolas Means talks about the tools that GitHub provides for Open Source maintainers to improve the safety and security of the software supply chain at the source.

Nickolas Means
on Dec 09, 2019

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30:51
Architecture & Design

Design Strategies for Building Safer Platforms

Kat Fukui talks about the design strategies that the Community & Safety team at GitHub uses to design safer, more consensual features and how to incorporate them into teams’ processes.

Kat Fukui
on Mar 01, 2019

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Development

Real-Time, Fine-Grained Version Control with CRDTs

Nathan Sobo covers the foundations of CRDTs, then explores how Github is using them in Eon to synchronize and persist changes to a repository at the granularity of individual keystrokes.

Nathan Sobo
on Sep 26, 2018

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50:00
Cloud

How Cloud Foundry is CI'd

Amit Gupta talks about how Cloud Foundry does continuous integration, from a GitHub pull request against a small repository to an official final release, transparently working with the community.

Amit Gupta
on Sep 07, 2016

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Git It Done - Git, Gerrit and GitHub at Orion

Bogdan Gheorghe explains how to build pages that are both easier for Orion adopters to embed and extend, and for developers to use in their key workflows, overviewing Orion’s git page and workflows.

Bogdan Gheorghe
on Jun 04, 2015

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GitHub Communications Culture and Tools

Matthew McCullough examines the last four years of communication culture at GitHub, starting their internal mobile and web apps, use of pull requests, and emoji.

Matthew McCullough
on Sep 24, 2014

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51:07
How GitHub (no longer) Works

Zach Holman discusses the various stumbling blocks GitHub encountered as the company grew over the years.

Zach Holman
on Nov 18, 2013

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Rewriting GitHub Pages with Riak and Webmachine

Jesse Newland discusses how GitHub pages were re-written with Erlang, Riak and Webmachine in order to improve their performance.

Jesse Newland
on Dec 18, 2012

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How GitHub Works

Zach Holman shares insights on creating a happy experience fueling developers’ creativity, being inspired by how things are done at GitHub.

Zach Holman
on Aug 17, 2012

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A Tale of Three Trees

Scott Chacon explains the internal mechanisms used by Git to do version control based on three trees –head, index, work–, and some of its commands, especially ‘reset’.

Scott Chacon
on Nov 09, 2011

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Community Performance Optimization: Making Your People Run as Smoothly as Your Site

Brion Vibber discusses the challenges of working with user communities, social bottlenecks, scalability of software vs communities, new approaches to scaling communities, and remaining challenges.

Brion Vibber
on Dec 23, 2009

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