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Last week at GitHub Universe, we announced our new Git storage architecture, capable of handling thousands of writes per second with reads that scale on demand. Through internal testing, we’ve demonstrated the ability to support 5,000 concurrent agents working on a repository, sending 7,200 pushes per second to a repo, all while serving read traffic with consistently low lat...

Accessibility work often lives in issue trackers, contribution guidelines, audit reports, team knowledge, and conversations with users. When that information has no predictable home, people who encounter a barrier must search for it, and maintainers lose context as contributors and project ownership change.

An ACCESSIBILITY.md file, now visible on repository overvi...

Louis Erbkamm knows his way around Arnis, the smallest town in Germany, but he’s never set foot in it.

I know where the shops are. Where the boats are… I know the city pretty well, but I haven’t been there yet.

Arnis is also the name of his open source project, which takes real-world data from OpenStreetMap and other so...

It’s time to make Shift happen.

Game Off, GitHub’s annual month-long game jam, returns for its 14th year this November. Thousands of developers have joined us over the years to make everything from polished platformers to wonderfully weird experiments.

Whether you’...

Our jobs as developers are changing. In a couple of years, we’ve gone from writing every line of code to working with AI assistants to orchestrating fleets of agents. But the goal hasn’t changed: ship completed software work. A feature, a bug fix, a security fix. Completed work, not more code, is the output that matters.

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