Shlomi Noach, GitHub’s Senior Infrastructure Engineer, shares some details on both the current and future high availability setup of MySQL databases at GitHub.
This is probably way too far out for most people using MySQL for their web applications. But it does highlight the technical complexity of running high load web applications, and how some of the issues can be solved or worked around.
Pretty fascinating stuff there …
sr.ht – pronounced “sir hat” – is a new competitor in the world of GitHub, BitBucket, and GitLab. Much like all of these, you can either self-hosted it or use a managed service. It might not yet be as fancy, polished, and cool (I think they need a better name and the domain) as its competitors, but there are a couple of reasons that might make a difference when making a choice:
GitHub is celebrating a very important milestone – they are now hosting 100,000,00 repositories. This is truly a remarkable achievement! Congratulations!
And while many of these are private, the majority, no doubt, are the Open Source projects. GitHub is indeed a cozy home for the Open Source Software, and the world wouldn’t be the same without GitHub.
Read their blog post for some cool statistics. Here are a few numbers to get you going:
Knowing these numbers, and working with GitHub on a daily basis, it’s difficult to imagine how crazy are all the usual metrics (daily/monthly active users, visitors, page views, etc.).
I’m raising a pint to the next 10 years and many repositories. And really hoping their recent acquisition by Microsoft is going to help, rather than the usual.
“15 Tips to Enhance your Github Flow” has lots and lots of good advice for anyone working with GitHub. Tips vary from PR templates all the way to automated dependency management and updates. Really useful!
