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. Here’s an inside look into how we do it.

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How GitHub engineers tackle platform problems

Our best practices for quickly identifying, resolving, and preventing issues at scale.

GitHub Issues search now supports nested queries and boolean operators: Here’s how we (re)built it

Plus, considerations in updating one of GitHub’s oldest and most heavily used features.

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Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components

The Accessibility Design team created a set of annotations to bridge the gaps that design systems alone can’t fix and proactively addresses accessibility issues within Primer components.

Building a more accessible GitHub CLI

How do we translate web accessibility standards to command line applications? This is GitHub CLI’s journey toward making terminal experiences for all developers.

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Design system annotations, part 2: Advanced methods of annotating components

How to build custom annotations for your design system components or use Figma’s Code Connect to help capture important accessibility details before development.

How the GitHub CLI can now enable triangular workflows

The GitHub CLI now supports common Git configurations for triangular workflows. Learn more about triangular workflows, how they work, and how to configure them for your Git workflows. Then, see how you can leverage these using the GitHub CLI.

Introducing sub-issues: Enhancing issue management on GitHub

Explore the iterative development journey of GitHub’s sub-issues feature. Learn how we leveraged sub-issues to build and refine sub-issues, breaking down larger tasks into smaller, manageable ones.

How engineers can use one-on-ones with their manager to accelerate career growth

Go beyond status updates and use these meetings to surface challenges, solve problems, and drive impact.

IssueOps: Automate CI/CD (and more!) with GitHub Issues and Actions

A look into building IssueOps workflows on GitHub to do everything from CI/CD to handling approvals and more.

Finding leaked passwords with AI: How we built Copilot secret scanning

Passwords are notoriously difficult to detect with conventional programming approaches. AI can help us find passwords better because it understands context. This blog post will explore the technical challenges we faced with building the feature and the novel and creative ways we solved them.