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The Blog of the GitHub Engineering Team

Popular posts: 32
Total points: 7,994
HN comments: 2,157
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Visit githubengineering.com → RSS feedOn Hacker News May 2015 – Mar 2019

Systems & Performance 11 Infrastructure & DevOps 10 Software Engineering 9 Web & Frontend 8 Databases & Data 7 Security & Privacy 6

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1

Move Fast and Fix Things

2015538 points90 commentscited by 3Software Engineering details

2

Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2

2018510 points263 comments Software Engineering details

3

GLB: GitHub's open source load balancer

2018478 points62 comments Networking & Internet details

4

Rearchitecting GitHub Pages

2015477 points149 commentscited by 3Web & Frontend details

5

A Formal Spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown

2017475 points89 commentscited by 4Software Engineering details

6

The GitHub Load Balancer

2016438 points125 comments Networking & Internet details

7

Kubernetes at GitHub

2017413 points137 comments Infrastructure & DevOps details

8

February 28th DDoS Incident Report

2018369 points107 comments Security & Privacy details

9

The GitHub GraphQL API

2016284 points66 comments Software Engineering details

10

Counting Objects

2015267 points37 commentscited by 4Systems & Performance details

11

Introducing DGit

2016262 points47 commentscited by 6Systems & Performance details

12

Soft U2F: A software-based U2F authenticator for macOS

2017261 points106 comments Security & Privacy details

13

Gh-ost: GitHub's online schema migration tool for MySQL

2016226 points30 commentscited by 3Databases & Data details

14

MySQL High Availability at GitHub

2018225 points53 commentscited by 4Databases & Data details

15

Moving persistent data out of Redis

2017220 points75 comments Databases & Data details

16

GitHub's Metal Cloud

2015205 points80 comments Infrastructure & DevOps details

17

DNS Infrastructure at GitHub

2017191 points21 comments Networking & Internet details

18

Subresource Integrity

2015184 points76 comments Security & Privacy details

19

GitHub's post-CSP journey

2017180 points56 comments Security & Privacy details

20

Deploying branches to GitHub.com

2015178 points28 comments Infrastructure & DevOps details

21

MySQL infrastructure testing automation at GitHub

2017176 points18 comments Databases & Data details

22

Browser Monitoring for GitHub.com

2015174 points25 comments Systems & Performance details

23

GitHub's Content Security Policy journey

2016165 points23 comments Security & Privacy details

24

Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub

2018159 points52 comments AI & Machine Learning details

25

Discontinue support for weak cryptographic standards

2018141 points36 comments Security & Privacy details

26

Brubeck – A statsd-compatible metrics aggregator

2015126 points47 comments Systems & Performance details

27

Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Over Once

2016122 points18 commentscited by 3Software Engineering details

28

How Four Native Developers Wrote an Electron App

2017119 points172 comments Software Engineering details

29

Evolution of GitHub's data centers

2017115 points22 comments Infrastructure & DevOps details

30

Exception Monitoring and Response

2015109 points20 comments Systems & Performance details