How GitHub uses CodeQL to secure GitHub
How GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team manages our CodeQL implementation at scale and how you can, too.
Brandon Stewart
February 12, 2025
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Engineering
Considerations for making a tree view component accessible
A deep dive on the work that went into making the component that powers repository and pull request file trees.
Eric Bailey
January 28, 2025
Breaking down CPU speed: How utilization impacts performance
The Performance Engineering team at GitHub assessed how CPU performance degrades as utilization increases and how this relates to capacity.
Andreas Strikos
November 25, 2024
How to make Storybook Interactions respect user motion preferences
With this custom addon, you can ensure your workplace remains accessible to users with motion sensitivities while benefiting from Storybook’s Interactions.
Kendall Gassner
November 20, 2024
GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency: How we built the next evolution of GitHub Enterprise using GitHub
How we used GitHub to build GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency.
Jim Wang
September 23, 2024
The ultimate guide to developer happiness
Five actionable tips and strategies to supercharge developer happiness—and a more innovative workplace.
Jeimy Ruiz
August 13, 2024
How GitHub supports neurodiverse employees (and how your company can, too)
Teams with neurodivergent employees can be up to 30 percent more productive. Discover tips on how best to support them in your workplace.
Lou Nelson
July 29, 2024
How we improved availability through iterative simplification
Solving and staying ahead of problems when scaling up a system of GitHub’s size is a delicate process. Here's a look at some of the tools in GitHub's toolbox, and how we’ve used them to solve problems.
Nick Hengeveld
July 23, 2024
Exploring the challenges in creating an accessible sortable list (drag-and-drop)
Drag-and-drop is a highly interactive and visual interface. We often use drag-and-drop to perform tasks like uploading files, reordering browser bookmarks, or even moving a card in solitaire.
Kendall Gassner
July 9, 2024
How we improved push processing on GitHub
Pushing code to GitHub is one of the most fundamental interactions that developers have with GitHub every day. Read how we have significantly improved the ability of our monolith to correctly and fully process pushes from our users.
Will Haltom
June 11, 2024
How GitHub reduced testing time for iOS apps with new runner features
Learn how GitHub used macOS and Apple Silicon runners for GitHub Actions to build, test, and deploy our iOS app faster.
Stephen Glass
June 3, 2024
How we’re building more inclusive and accessible components at GitHub
We've made improvements to the way users of assistive technology can interact with and navigate lists of issues and pull requests and tables across GitHub.com.
Eric Bailey
May 7, 2024
Empowering accessibility: GitHub’s journey building an in-house Champions program
As part of GitHub's dedication to accessibility, we expanded our internal accessibility program and scaled up our assessment process to help remove or lower barriers for users with disabilities. Then, we empowered employees from various disciplines to drive accessibility efforts within their teams.
Carie Fisher
May 1, 2024
How GitHub uses merge queue to ship hundreds of changes every day
Here's how merge queue transformed the way GitHub deploys changes to production at scale, so you can do the same for your organization.
Will Smythe
March 6, 2024
Fixing security vulnerabilities with AI
A peek under the hood of GitHub Advanced Security code scanning autofix.
Tiferet Gazit
February 14, 2024
Bringing npm registry services to GitHub Codespaces
The npm engineering team recently transitioned to using GitHub Codespaces for local development for npm registry services. This shift to Codespaces has substantially reduced the friction of our inner development loop and boosted developer productivity.
Di Hei
February 13, 2024