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In February, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into a January incident that resulted in degraded performance for GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages and another January incident that impacted Git users.
We’re excited to announce the general availability of GitHub Actions Importer. GitHub Actions Importer helps you plan, forecast, and automate migrations from Azure DevOps, CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, and Travis CI…
Speed up your GitHub Actions jobs on macOS with all new, faster GitHub-hosted macOS runners for x64.
is Spotify’s global annual year-end campaign that celebrates our listeners with a personalized review of their listening habits over the past year.
On the Encore team (Spotify’s design system), there’s nothing we love more than collaborating with our fellow squads — (1) because they have awesome squad names and (2) because they have awesome people. Enter our most recent collab with the Mandalorian squad, which is in charge of accessibility at Spotify — and aptly named, because accessibility is “the Way.”
TL;DR Sequential tests are the bread and butter for any company conducting online experiments. The literature on sequential testing has developed quickly over the last 10 years, and it’s not always easy to determine which test is most suitable for the setup of your company — many of these tests are “optimal” in some sense, and most leading A/B testing companies have their own favorite. Even though
Watch Justin and Fiona speak about ‘’ at the Spotify Engineering Conference in 2022.
Introducing a new DNS platform that powers 1.1.1.1 and various other products.
Learn all about stored procedures in PostgreSQL right here with examples created by a database expert. Includes syntax & tips
Software Engineer Dorothy Chen explains the technical challenges and opportunities in making Figma keyboard shortcuts more accessible for everyone.
Explore how using GitHub and HashiCorp together enables enterprises to develop and ship to their customers faster and more secure with consistent workflows and actions.
Unlock the full potential of GitHub Codespaces with these 10 tips and tricks! From generating AI images to running self-guided coding workshops, discover how to optimize your software development workflow with this powerful tool.
Secret scanning alerts are now generally available for all public repositories. Admins can now turn on the alert experience with one click.
Some notes on using nix
Let’s get ready for March with some fresh wallpapers! Designed with love by the community for the community, the wallpaper designs in this collection are available in versions with and without a calendar. Enjoy!
In the ever-evolving design tools landscape, it can be difficult to keep up with the latest and greatest. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at Penpot, the first design and prototyping tool that’s fully open-source and based on open web standards, making it an ideal choice for both designers and developers.
Each time we build a field validation from scratch, accessibility doesn’t come out of the box. In this guide, Sandrina breaks down what we need to take into consideration, so that nobody gets stuck on an inaccessible invalid field.
Curious about headless commerce? Learn all about going headless with a composable stack so you can boost developer velocity, conversions, and more.
Cloudflare engineers rewrote cf-html, an old NGINX module, in Rust. This project revealed much about NGINX, potentially leading to its full replacement in Cloudflare's infrastructure.
Learn how to enable developer productivity and collaboration while staying secure and compliant. Stay compliant without slowing down your business. From security to CI/CD, automate every step of your software workflow—so your developers can stay focused on what matters most: building.
While VR headsets have been with us for at least a decade, AR hardware barely exists today; indeed, the very components that will comprise the hardware scarcely exist, making it a truly zero-to-one innovation challenge. Meta’s Head of AR Glasses Hardware, Caitlin Kalinowski is helping to lead that charge. Kalinowski hails from Portsmouth, NH and studied mechanical […]
The Ruby LSP is a new language server built at Shopify that makes coding in Ruby even better by providing extra Ruby features for any editor that has a client layer for the LSP. In this article, we’ll cover how we built the Ruby LSP, the features included within it, and how you can install it.
This blog post reports on Internet insights during an historical war in Europe that has been seen and shared online, and discusses how Ukraine's Internet remained resilient in spite of dozens of disruptions in three different stages of the conflict.
