Engineering principles

Teams with neurodivergent employees can be up to 30 percent more productive. Discover tips on how best to support them in your workplace.

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.

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.

Here’s how merge queue transformed the way GitHub deploys changes to production at scale, so you can do the same for your organization.

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.

The Fundamentals program has helped us address tech debt, improve reliability, and enhance observability of our engineering systems.

Our latest solution to the ubiquitous engineering problem of integration testing in a distributed service ecosystem here at GitHub.

Learn more about how we use GitHub to build GitHub, how we turned our guiding communications principles into prescriptive practices to manage our internal communications signal-to-noise ratio, and how you can contribute to the ongoing conversation.

Learn about tools and processes the GitHub Accessibility leadership team uses for retrospectives that fully engage every team member.

Hear from Grafana Labs’ Armand Grillet about how his team uses GitHub Projects.

Explore how the GitHub Docs team uses GitHub Projects for content coordination, reviews, and publishing.

What if developers want to leverage branch deployments but don’t have a full ChatOps stack integrated with their repositories? We wanted to set out to find a way for all developers to be able to take advantage of branch deployments with ease, right from their GitHub repository, and so the branch-deploy Action was born!

When teams work cross-functionally, good things happen. See how our teams use GitHub Projects to coordinate and ship new products and features.

What in the world do rubber ducks have to do with programming? And why were they everywhere at GitHub Universe? A lot of you asked, so I’m here to help explain.

Our engineering and security teams do some incredible work. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left.