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Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performan This post is the third installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage. We linked to previous article on how to build the glob, this part focus on front-end optimization: thing like DOM listener, animation, lazy loading, photo size optimization.

Building On-Call Culture at GitHub Most of the GitHub products you interact with are in a large Ruby on Rails monolith. Monolithic codebases are common for many high-growth startups, and it’s a difficult situation to detangle yourself from. One of the pain points we had was problems with the on-call system for our monolith.

How we built the GitHub globe The new github homepage has an interactive globe which you can rotate it, and see the interaction between countries. This artircle explained how they did that using WebGL, three.js and bezier curve.

Commits are snapshots, not diffs I believe that Git becomes understandable if we peel back the curtain and look at how Git stores your repository data. After we investigate this model, we’ll explore how this new perspective helps us understand commands like git cherry-pick and git rebase

Automating MySQL schema migrations with GitHub Actions and more Everywhere I works, at some point the problem of data schema migration occurs. So seeing big company like Github build tools, and share their workflow is super useful for us. We may not need to implement whatever they did but at least we can see how others are doing it. I usually like to share...

Debugging network stalls on Kubernetes Github notice that certain services running on Kubernetes in our environment were experiencing sporadic latency that couldn’t be attributed to the performance characteristics of the application itself.