417 articles on Career & Teams.
Interactive Rebase is the Swiss Army knife of Git commands: lots of use cases and lots of possibilities! It's really a great addition to any developer's tool chain, because it lets you revise your local commit history—before you share your work with the rest of the team. Let's see what you can do with an interactive rebase and then look at some practical examples.
This morning, I sent the following post to the GitHub team. TL;DR: I’m moving on to my next adventure, and Thomas Dohmke (currently Chief Product Officer) will be GitHub’s next CEO.
Learn how an always-on approach to career development improves your team. Leverage quarterly calibrations, weekly syncs, and more. Template available!
Maintainers can now limit who can approve and request changes on pull requests. You can also close issues and block users via your phone.
Learn how to set, track and reach your development goals. Access templates for Engineering Managers or Individual Contributors throughout your career.
On the Workers team, we have a policy: A change to the Workers Runtime must never break an application that is live in production.
Heading back to school? Did you just graduate? The GitHub Education Stream Team (GEST) is sharing resources, tools, and more to help emerging developers land a job.
Neglecting to cater your business website to your customers is not only detrimental to your sales but can also hurt your team’s productivity and operations. Integrating a CRM with your business website has numerous benefits. You equip various departments within your company with tools to organize and automate work and improve efficiency. In this article, Zara Cooper explains what these benefits ar
In August of 2020, we started highlighting stories that showcase how developers, maintainers, and organizations are moving humanity forward through The ReadME Project.
Calling all students! Get the most out of your GitHub Education experience by joining the GitHub student community on our new digital campus.
Agile development methods can bolster company culture and empower teams to move quickly, with a focus on frequently adding value for customers. Whether you are a program manager, game developer, event planner, or architect, within businesses where change is constant, it’s key to have flexibility, and that’s where agile shines. While there are a variety…
I’ve been managing Developer Infrastructure teams (alternatively known as Developer Acceleration, Developer Productivity, and other such names) for almost a decade now. Developer Infrastructure (which we usually shorten to “Dev Infra”) covers a lot of ground, especially at a company like Shopify that’s invested heavily in the area, from developer environments and continuous integration/continuous
A public beta for CodeQL package manager, additional options to manage Actions runs from first-time contributors, GitHub Discussions translation, and more.
Over the past months, we’ve left our macOS model behind and moved to Codespaces for the majority of GitHub.com development.
Greencloud is a coalition of Cloudflare employees who are passionate about the environment. Initially founded in 2019, we’re a cross-functional, global team with a few areas of focus: Awareness, Support, and Advocacy.
Employee resource groups (ERGs) foster community and a sense of belonging, help drive organizational change, and improve the overall quality of an organization’s culture. Most importantly, they help organizations become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive.
When you move from 1 maintainer to 1+N maintainers of your project, things can get complicated. Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) is a simple, easy-to-implement governance framework for your free and open source projects.
The GitHub Education Stream Team is adding new shows. Job-hunting graduate? New to coding? No matter where you are, there’s a show for you.
An interview with the team who built the digital card came
We’re excited to announce that Kathy Korevec is joining our leadership team at Vercel as Head of Product to accelerate our mission to bring the best developer experience to our customers and community.
How our team celebrates and syncs in the file
We’re proud to share the new and improved Social Impact at GitHub website, and we’re really excited to share what our team has been working on! GitHub’s mission is to…
Mental models within an industry, company, or even a person, change constantly. As methodologies mature, we see the long term effects our choices have wrought and can adjust accordingly. As a team or company grows, methodologies that worked well for five people may not work as well for 40 people.
The Public Beta of the Notion API dropped! Woot! Here's their guide. I've been a Notion user and fan for a long time, for both personal and professional team
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To do your best work as a developer, you need context. A development community thrives when its members share context as a habit. That's why Shopify Engineering believes that sharing context is vital to our growth and success—as a company, as a team, and as individuals. Context is an abstract term, and we use it to refer to the why, what, and how of our development philosophies, approaches, and ch
At the beginning of 2020, the SmashingConf team was ready for a new year. We had so many things that excited us. New speakers, new workshops, new cities, new attendees, new experiences. And as we all know, 2020 had other ideas. With so many people working from home, we thought we would bring our [Smashing workshops](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/) from our home offices to yours — but h
A good management of your product records, i.e. all documents associated with your product — saves time, reduces anxiety, boosts onboarding and makes you ready for vacations or sudden leaves. All product specialists should know the basics. Of course, it would be easier for you to find, say, your July report for investors if everyone on the team named and structured their assets consistently. Let’s
There’s a way to build a model for your life and the other demands on you. It doesn’t have to be 100 hours a week. It might not even be 40 hours a week. Whatever sustainable model you come up with, prioritize fiercely and communicate expectations accordingly. I’ve worked this way for three decades through different phases of my life. The hours have changed, but the basic model and principles remai
TLDR; In episode 08 of our podcast series “”, we share stories and lessons from building and open sourcing , our homegrown developer portal. Hear why a developer-friendly, market-based platform like Backstage could only have been developed at Spotify (where autonomy is prized, not top-down mandates) and why that ends up making Backstage such a flexible fit for other companies, too. and get all our
Team purpose and pride — my team hit those high marks, but it was a long journey to get there from where we started.
👋 Hello from the GitHub Docs team! We build everything you see at docs.github.com. Over the past year, we’ve written a bunch of GitHub Actions workflows to do some fun…
Developer productivity platforms are increasingly recognised as a way to manage the cognitive load of engineering teams and decrease time to market for new features. However, there are baseline capabilities that organisations need to cultivate in order to successfully execute on a plaform strategy. The platform team needs to think of the platform as a software product, needing dialog with its user
GitHub Actions is a powerful, flexible CI/CD service that gives developers the ability to automate all of their software workflows. Developers have built amazing things with GitHub Actions, and the…
Toronto will be home to Cloudflare’s first Canadian office and team. While I currently live in San Francisco, I was born and raised in Saskatchewan.
The title of this article is misleading. It’s not actually very important for an Engineering Manager to use career laddering, per se, or my process. It is,
The three-step framework Shopify's Data Science & Engineering team built for evaluating new search algorithms.
Starting today, your team can use Cloudflare Access to build rules that only allow users to connect to applications from a device that your enterprise manages.
Today, we are excited to announce that dedicated certs are getting an upgrade… and a new name… introducing Advanced Certificate Manager! Advanced Certificate Manager is a flexible and customizable way to manage your certificates on Cloudflare.
We are taking GitHub Campus TV to the next level with the help of emerging developers! How? Students from around the world are coming together to host weekly streams on…
Understanding the movement of ‘single source’ companies from ‘open source’ to ‘source available’ licenses In the last nine months since joining GitHub’s policy team, I’ve been asked repeatedly about a…
My days begin with an early morning wake-up call from Zev – he comes through at around 5am and we get a couple of dedicated hours of playtime before the rest of the world gets up. It’s fun – this morning, we baked oatmeal cookies. Then once my wife and I are ready, we take the dog, throw Zev in the back carrier and walk all together through the park to his nanny-share. It’s a really lovely way to
Justina Wong, Technical Support Team Lead in Lisbon, talks about what it’s like working at Cloudflare, and everything you need to know if you want to join us.
Are you a student developer looking to land an internship? We’ve got answers! We recently sat down with Co.Lab Co-founder Helen Huang on GitHub Campus TV to find out how…
Learn more about how Vercel's latest feature will give access to usage information so your Team can optimize your builds.
Remote work is taking over the world, and the biggest obstacle remote teams face is emulating the natural communication that happens at the office. In this article, Obed Parlapiano shares his advice and tips on how to improve your team’s communication and productivity by creating habits and processes focused on improving collaboration.
With Vercel, you can now transfer projects from Hobby plan to a Vercel Team Plan with Zero Downtime
How we automated data center expansions and cut by 90% the amount of time our team spent on tedious operational work.
Technology is constantly becoming smarter and more powerful. I often observe that as these technologies are introduced an organization’s productivity instead of improving has reduced. This is because the technology has increased complexities and cognitive overhead to the developer, reducing their effectiveness. In this article, the first of a series, I introduce a framework for maximizing develope
How to stay creative, focused, and organized when working remotely? In this article, Cosima Mielke has compiled some useful tools and resources to help you tackle some of the challenges of working remotely. The collection is by no means complete, but rather a selection of things that we found useful and that we hope will make your day-to-day work more productive and efficient, too.
Saying no is a skill. Saying yes to the wrong freelance opportunities can lead you toward misery and burnout, and we could all probably improve how mindful we are about our work, partners, and clients. For hungry freelancers, it can be hard to turn work away. But in the long run, saying no to a project that’s a bad fit will make you a better freelancer. This article will help freelancers and consu
The Cloudflare Workers team is excited to announce the opening of our Discord Channel!
To create relevant search, processing clickstream data is key: you frequently want to promote search results that are being clicked on and purchased, and demote those things users don’t love. Typically search systems think of processing clickstream data as a batch job run over historical data, perhaps using a system like Spark. But on Shopify’s Discovery team, we ask the question: What if we could
TL;DR We just open sourced — a tool for Apple’s developer software, Xcode, that lets you collect, display, and track the valuable metrics hiding inside your team’s Xcode build logs. Are your build times improving or regressing? Which version of Xcode is slowest? Which hardware setup is fastest? XCMetrics makes it easy to find out all this and more. Made for iOS engineers, by iOS engineers, the too
For the fourth year in a row, the GitHub Education team surveyed students and educators to provide faculty with information to support augmented instruction and share key insights from other…
How GitHub Education and Major League Hacking have teamed up to bridge the gap between school and work.
In celebrating GitHub Security Lab’s one-year anniversary, we explained that we’re expanding our research focus. Why did we make this decision? The decision stemmed from our work with the Open…
When you’re working on a new project, what is more crucial than choosing the right features to develop? However, the exercise often turns into a spectacle of team voting. As a result, decisions change many times down the road. In thi article, Slava Shestopalov will talk about the pitfalls of popular prioritization techniques and approaches to reducing bias and disagreement.
