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  - Application development
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  Learn more
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  Get an inside look at how we’re building the home for all developers.
  - Architecture & optimization
    Discover how we deliver a performant and highly available experience across the GitHub platform.
  - Engineering principles
    Explore best practices for building software at scale with a majority remote team.
  - Infrastructure
    Get a glimpse at the technology underlying the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform.
  - Platform security
    Learn how we build security into everything we do across the developer lifecycle.
  - User experience
    Find out what goes into making GitHub the home for all developers.
- How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
  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.
  Learn more
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  - DevSecOps
    How to integrate security into the SDLC.
  - Governance & compliance
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- GitHub recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Code Assistants
  Learn why Gartner positioned GitHub as a Leader for the second year in a row.
  Learn more
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  Keep up with what’s new and notable from inside GitHub.
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  - Policy
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  - Research
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  - The library
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  Learn more
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    Application security, explained.
  - Supply chain security
    Demystifying supply chain security.
  - Vulnerability research
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    Helpful tips on securing web applications.
- The enterprise guide to AI-powered DevSecOps
  Learn about core challenges in DevSecOps, and how you can start addressing them with AI and automation.
  Learn more

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Ensuring compliance in developer workflows

How GitHub Enterprise ensures secure and compliant developer workflows for highly regulated industries.

Diagram of a sample AppSec workflow including GitHub and Jenkins

Best practices on rolling out code scanning at enterprise scale

Learn best practices on how to roll out centrally managed, developer-centric application security with a third party CI/CD system like Jenkins or ADO.

Measuring enterprise developer productivity

In a recent paper written by Nicole Forsgren and her colleagues, “The SPACE of developer productivity: There’s more to it than you think,” there is an irony that is hard…

News & insights

Code Scanning a GitHub Repository using GitHub Advanced Security within an Azure DevOps Pipeline

In this blog post we demonstrate how to integrate the GitHub Advanced Security code scanning capability into our Azure DevOps Pipelines. We provide code snippets and examples that can guide you or your developers working to integrate Code Scanning into any 3rd Party CI tool.

defining devsecops, devops, and gitops

Achieving DevSecOps maturity with a developer-first, community-driven approach

GitHub provides the security capabilities to achieve Level 1 of the OWASP DevSecOps Maturity Model. In this post, we explore the principles of DSOMM Level 1 and how you can implement secret scanning, SCA, SAST and DAST using native tooling on GitHub.

News & insights

The GitHub Enterprise Audit log API for GraphQL beginners

The newly shipped GitHut Audit log API allows you to make efficient queries for specific log data. Learn more about how to get started with the API.