GitHub Engineering
From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance
How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant.
GitHub Engineering
How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety
Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling.
GitHub Engineering
The uphill climb of making diff lines performant
The path to better performance is often found in simplicity.
GitHub Engineering
Agent-driven development in Copilot Applied Science
I used coding agents to build agents that automated part of my job. Here's what I learned about working better with coding agents.
GitHub Engineering
Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion
AI automates triage for accessibility feedback, allowing us to focus on fixing barriers—turning a chaotic backlog into continuous, rapid resolutions.
GitHub Engineering
How we rebuilt the search architecture for high availability in GitHub Enterprise Server
Here's how we the search experience better, faster, and more resilient for GHES customers.
GitHub Engineering
From pixels to characters: The engineering behind GitHub Copilot CLI’s animated ASCII banner
Learn how GitHub built an ASCII animation for the Copilot CLI using custom tooling, ANSI color roles, and advanced terminal engineering.
GitHub Engineering
When protections outlive their purpose: A lesson on managing defense systems at scale
User feedback led us to clean up outdated mitigations. See why observability and lifecycle management are critical for defense systems.
GitHub Engineering
Post-quantum security for SSH access on GitHub
GitHub is introducing post-quantum secure key exchange methods for SSH access to better protect Git data in transit.
GitHub Engineering
How GitHub engineers tackle platform problems
Our best practices for quickly identifying, resolving, and preventing issues at scale.
GitHub Engineering
GitHub Issues search now supports nested queries and boolean operators: Here's how we (re)built it
Building this feature presented significant challenges. We're excited to take you behind the scenes.