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If building a GraphQL API backed by a native graph database sounds interesting or at all helpful for the problems you’re trying to solve as a developer, perhaps you’d like to give the open-source [Neo4j GraphQL Library](https://srv.buysellads.com/ads/long/x/TCZPLYDDTTTTTTFR6JINCTTTTTTGVUIVKKTTTTTTCT2NTYYTTTTTTI4BVH7U4JBCKQ466IDGV2IUWESGCV7WALL5QYYE) a try. Let’s take a closer look at the reasons w
We started developing our vulnerability management platform (VMP) at Spotify in Q2, 2020, and now that we’ve implemented it and use the system in our day-to-day work, we wanted to take a moment to share our journey to help reduce security risks in an efficient and scalable manner.
Needing to deliver faster and more reliably while managing a growing number of contributors and a more complex codebase seems like the fate of every hyper-growth tech company. For platform teams, the challenge is not any different. How can we quickly roll out and increase the adoption of new technologies safely with a growing codebase and organization?
With the current uncertainty over Twitter, I'm starting to explore using Mastodon
A glimpse into the backgrounds and day-to-day work of several GitHub employees in cybersecurity roles.
We’re sharing how Meta is applying statistics and machine learning (ML) to improve notification personalization and management on Instagram – particularly on daily digest push notifications. By using causal inference and ML to identify highly active users who are likely to see more content organically, we have been able to reduce the number of notifications […]
We are very excited to announce that the open-source web framework Remix and its team are joining Shopify.
November is just around the corner, and with it, a new collection of desktop wallpapers to celebrate the beginning of the month. Designed by creatives from all across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar. Let’s make November colorful!
Some seriously spooktacular open source games for the web, Windows, macOS, and Linux with all sorts of fun hacks for infinite lives, invulnerability, and playing with time.
In this article, Yosra Emad explains how to create a rollercoaster path that a ball follows using cubic beziers and CSS transitions. You’ll also learn how the cubic-bezier function in CSS works in detail and how to stack multiple simple animations to create one complex one.
We’ve spent the last two articles in this three-part series playing with gradients to make really neat image decorations using nothing but the <img>
As we wrap up Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub bug bounty team is excited to spotlight one of the security researchers who participates in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program.
Hackatoberfest, hackathons, and open source contributions. It’s been a hectic month with so many community pull requests to all kinds of projects. So many in fact that we had to…
There are 3 management poles for developer infrastructure teams that are thus tricky to balance: management support, system and domain expertise, and road maps.
If you
In this blog post, we describe a formal, computer-aided security analysis of Oblivious HTTP, an emerging IETF standard that applications can use to improve user privacy
You can now build your agenda on GitHubUniverse.com! Whether you’re just getting started or you’re a seasoned industry professional, there’s a session for you.
The GitHub Security Lab provided office hours for open source projects looking to improve their security posture and reduce the risk of breach. Here’s what we learned and how you can also participate.
As GitHub continues to grow, our vision of being the home for all developers continues to materialize, expanding our progress, perspectives, and responsibility to the world.
Words I've often heard associated with cross-time zone software engineering teams include “challenging”, “tricky”, and “difficulties”. Here are a few tips to make asynchronous communication a positive experience.
Today, a change to our Tiered Cache system caused some requests to fail for users with status code 530
Simon Goellner (@simeydotme)'s collection of Holographic Trading Cards have captured our attention.
Explore how GitHub Enterprise can help you transform your software engineering organization and practices.
You may know that GitHub encrypts your source code at rest, but you may not have known that we encrypt sensitive database columns as well. Read about our column encryption strategy and our decision to adopt the Rails column encryption standard.
