With companies increasingly relying on services like GitHub, it’s important to know that no matter what happens with the platform, all your hosted data (code changes, pull requests, collaborations, documentation) is recoverable. Even with a platform...
The last time I had ten GitHub tabs open trying to evaluate which JavaScript library to use for a particular project, I wanted to grab one of the example files and pull it down to my local machine. It would be convenient to make a few edits and make...
SOC (System and Organizational Control), pronounced “Sock,” is an audit that rates companies on their performance in TSC (Trust Service Criteria), summarized below. These guidelines cover everything from databases and software applications to cloud...
While GitHub is a well-established company, data loss is always a risk worth considering. Data breaches, policy changes, and system downtime all have an impact on your ability to access and use GitHub Issues effectively, so keeping a backup is...
GitHub Enterprise Server is the on-premises git repository hosting offering from GitHub. Large organizations commonly run GitHub Enterprise Server for improved control and security over their code repositories. With Enterprise Server, you can limit...
Part of being an engineering leader is communicating the needs of the engineering team to non-technical stakeholders. Take backups, for example. Backups cost money to store and take time to create. Theoretically, if everyone does their job...
Data loss is a risk for every business and one that can be mitigated by having reliable backups. On January 31, 2017, Gitlab had an outage that lasted for many hours due to production data being accidentally deleted. In this case, Gitlab’s problems...
If you are an organization enthusiast like me, you will be quick to hit the delete button on old repositories you’re no longer using. For personal projects, this is an effective way to keep your GitHub account clean. In shared organization accounts,...
On May 13 we received the cronjob message: cannot delete snapshot and cannot snapshot read only file system. We discussed the issue in our Daily and assumed a problem with the Filesystem Btrfs. After reading the error logs and some initial research...
At 07.54am UTC on May 13 during routine maintenance we discovered an issue in our main data storage. Because customer data is of critical importance to us, we paused the automatic GitHub repository daily backup until we could resolve the issue. We...