In April, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. April 05 08:11 UTC (lasting 47 minutes) On April 5, between 8:11 and 8:58 UTC, several GitHub services experienced issues. Web request error rates peaked at 6% and API request error rates peaked at 10%, and over 100,000 GitHub Actions workflows failed to start. The root cause was traced to a change in the database load balancer, which caused connection failures to multiple critical databases in one of our three data centers. We resolved the incident by rolling back the change and have implemen ..read more

Are you looking for an opportunity where you can have a positive impact in open source development? Then, our DPG Open Source Community Manager Program may be for you! GitHub Social Impact is excited to announce the launch of our second cohort, which has been built on learnings from our pilot cohort last year. This program is designed to connect community managers who are interested in making a difference with digital public goods (DPGs) that need support with engaging external contributors. The goal is two-fold: to create more opportunities for developers interested in working on open source ..read more

Developers are constantly coming up with new ideas, exploring new skills, and collaborating with other developers on work and personal projects. At GitHub, we understand that all this collaboration doesn’t always happen from behind desks and computers. Developers increasingly use their mobile devices to learn, understand, and perform important tasks in the software development process. Today, we’re making that easier than ever, empowering developers to build in natural language wherever they may be, with the general availability of GitHub Copilot Chat for GitHub Mobile. With GitHub Copilot Cha ..read more

Incorporating new technology into your organization’s workflow involves more than just understanding the tool—it requires a culture shift towards community. By creating a destination for inspiration and knowledge sharing, you can enable your teams and individuals to accomplish more together. GitHub Discussions is a dedicated space for conversations. It decreases the burden of managing active work in issues and pull requests by providing a separate space to host ongoing discussions, questions, and ideas. We use GitHub Discussions to enable dialogue among tens of thousands of community members v ..read more

Starting today, administrators using Github.com accounts can enable their repositories and/or organizations to run Dependabot updates jobs as a GitHub Actions workflow using both hosted and self-hosted runners. Running Dependabot does not count towards GitHub Actions minutes–meaning that using Dependabot continues to be free for everyone. Since its launch, Dependabot has used hosted compute to simplify the process of running update jobs, minimizing the amount of work developers need to do to stay on top of security vulnerabilities. However, this compute system wasn’t able to access some on-pre ..read more

There’s an increasing need across enterprises and the open source ecosystem to have a verifiable way to link software artifacts back to their source code and build instructions. And with more than 100M developers building on GitHub, we want to ensure developers have the tools needed to help protect the integrity of their software supply chain. Today, we’re proud to announce the public beta of Artifact Attestations, a new feature that will pave the way for a cultural shift toward expecting to know where software comes from. Artifact Attestations allow project maintainers to effortlessly create ..read more

May 16 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), and I’m using the occasion to reflect on one of the longest, if not the longest, projects I’ve worked on throughout my accessibility design career: Web Accessibility (A11y) Design Bootcamp. In talking to fellow web accessibility practitioners and folks who work in product development, I often get asked what the bootcamp is, how we got started, and how they can do the same in their organizations. Let’s break all of that down! What is A11y Design Bootcamp? A11y Design Bootcamp is a live educational program that consists of exercises, discussio ..read more

For more on this topic, check out Alexis Lucio, Catherine McNally, and Lindsey Wild‘s axe-con 2024 talk, “Establishing a Scalable A11y Education Ecosystem,” which laid the foundation for this blog post. Free registration required. Laying the foundation In today’s digital world, accessibility isn’t merely a checkbox—it’s the cornerstone of creating an inclusive experience for all users. At GitHub, we recognize this fundamental truth. That’s why we’ve embarked on a journey to empower developers, including those with disabilities, to participate fully and thrive on our platform. Our commi ..read more

The world of software development is constantly evolving. That means whether you’re a seasoned developer or just starting out on your coding journey, there’s always something new to learn. Below, we’ll explore five actionable tips to take your career to the next level. From mastering prompt engineering to harnessing the power of AI for code security, these tips will help you learn the skills and uncover the knowledge you need to excel in today’s competitive job market. Tip #1: Become a pro at prompt engineering In the age of AI, you can use AI tools like GitHub Copilot to code up to 55% faster ..read more

Software is a funny, profound thing: each piece of it is an invisible machine, seemingly made of magic words, designed to run on the ultimate, universal machine. It’s not alive, but it has a lifecycle. It starts out as source code—just text files, sitting in a repository somewhere—and then later (through some unique process) that source gets built into something else. A chunk of minified Javascript delivered to a web server, a container image full of framework code and business logic, a raw binary compiled for a specific processor architecture. That final stage of metamorphosis, that something ..read more