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Engineering principles

We’ve always used GitHub to build GitHub. Over the years, we’ve also adopted practices from the open source community for our own internal collaboration needs. Learn more about how we work with a global and diverse team and make informed, inclusive, and scalable decisions.

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Bringing npm registry services to GitHub Codespaces

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.

Enabling branch deployments through IssueOps with GitHub Actions

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!

What’s with all the ducks?

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.

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