Architecture & optimization

At GitHub, we pride ourselves on delivering a first-class developer experience. A considerable part of our work is on our front end, which we strive to keep as lightweight, fast,…

Rendering logs in a web UI might seem simple: they are just lines of plain text. However, there are a lot of additional features that make them more useful to…

GitHub’s mobile applications have used GraphQL to power new features. We’ve now been able to move faster and get more done with less hassle and no over-fetching. We were able…

How architecture decision records can help your team.

The Semantic Code team shipped a massive improvement to the language support system that powers code navigation. Code navigation features only scratch the surface of possibilities that start to open up when we combine Semantic‘s program analysis potential with GitHub’s scale.

Learn about the legacy, architecture, and methods used to reduce 48k lines of code to 10 as we take a deep dive into GitHub’s Javascript SDK.

Today we released the new GitHub Desktop Beta, rewritten on Electron.Electron is a well-known on-ramp for web developers to build desktop apps using familiar web technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

We serve a lot of diffs here at GitHub. Because it is computationally expensive to generate and display a diff, we’ve traditionally had to apply some very conservative limits on…

Edit: DGit is now called Spokes GitHub hosts over 35 million repositories and over 30 million Gists on hundreds of servers. Over the past year, we’ve built DGit, a new…

GitHub.com no longer delivers its icons via icon font. Instead, we’ve replaced all the Octicons throughout our codebase with SVG alternatives. While the changes are mostly under-the-hood, you’ll immediately feel…