NoShip Prevents Earnings Week Deploy Disasters

Q1 earnings calls are happening across the industry this week. For a lot of engineering teams at public companies, that means one thing: nobody's touching production. It's not a written policy at most places. It's the Slack message from your VP two hours before the call. "Let's hold off on deploys until after 4pm." Then you spend the next hour manually checking whether your team actually got the memo. The informal freeze is the worst kind. No tracking, no audit trail, no way to know who deployed what or who asked for an exception and when. A structured freeze takes five minutes to set up and gives you a clean record of what happened and who approved it. That's what NoShip does. We just launched on the GitHub App Marketplace. The first 100 orgs to install get the full NoShip plan, no limits, free, for a limited time. Install it before your next earnings window and stop relying on Slack messages to protect production. #DevOps #GitHub #CodeFreeze #SRE #PlatformEngineering #DeploymentSafety #EngineeringLeadership #GitHubMarketplace

GitHub's update on availability is a compelling read. They're scaling for an incredible 30x growth by 2026, primarily driven by the explosion of "agentic development workflows." This really highlights how AI-driven dev is already pushing infrastructure to its limits. Good to hear their detailed plans for reliability and transparency after recent incidents. 🚀 #GitHub #AIDev

Easter Sunday is not the time to find out your deploy pipeline is still open. We've all seen it. A PR gets merged late Friday "just to get it in." By Sunday someone's getting paged. The on-call engineer is not happy. NoShip lets you set a recurring freeze that kicks in automatically every holiday weekend. Define the window once, and GitHub enforces it. No Slack reminders. No honor system. No "I thought someone else handled it." Set it. Forget it. Enjoy the long weekend. #DevOps #GitHub #CodeFreeze #SRE #PlatformEngineering #DeploymentSafety #Easter

Everyone jokes about rm -rf *… until it actually happens. A while back, GitHub engineer accidentally accidentally ran a destructive command on the wrong repository. Not a fork. Not a personal project. The company’s main GitHub repo. Within seconds… pipelines failed. Services broke. Data disappeared. Panic kicked in. And this wasn’t a small startup. This was at the scale where even minutes of downtime matter. But here’s the part no one talks about 👇 The system came back. Why? Because great engineering isn’t about never making mistakes. It’s about designing systems that survive mistakes. -> GitHub backups saved them -> Branch protections prevented even worse disasters -> Teams jumped in and fixed things fast Within hours, everything was restored. 💡 The lesson? If you’ve ever broken something in code, accidentally deleted a branch, or messed up production… You’re not alone. Even the best engineers have done it. The difference isn’t perfection. The difference is how fast you recover and what you learn. So next time you make a mistake… Don’t panic. Improve your system. Because in tech, mistakes are not the end. They’re part of the process. #github #programming #softwareengineering #devlife #learning #growth #tech

GitHub turning 18 is more than a milestone. It is a reminder of how fundamentally software development has changed. From individual coding to global collaboration, from isolated projects to open ecosystems, GitHub has quietly become the infrastructure behind how the world builds software. What is most interesting is not just the scale, but the shift in mindset. Code is no longer just written. It is shared, reviewed, iterated, and improved collectively. In many ways, GitHub helped normalize a new way of working where transparency, collaboration, and speed are not advantages but expectations. And as AI starts to reshape development again, the question is no longer how we write code, but how we collaborate with both humans and machines. Some platforms grow with time. Others redefine how an entire industry operates. 💬 Curious to hear your thoughts How has GitHub changed the way you work over the years? #GitHub #SoftwareDevelopment #OpenSource #Collaboration #Tech

A lot of developers rely on GitHub every single day, but the moment you ask them how it truly differs from GitLab, the answers often get blurry. And honestly, I understand why, on la surface they look similar, yet they don’t serve the same vision at all. GitHub has become the place where the world writes code together. Backed by Microsoft and fueled by a massive open-source community, it’s built for speed, simplicity, and collaboration. Actions, Codespaces, Dependabot… everything is designed to help teams move quickly and stay focused on building. GitLab, on the other hand, follows a completely different philosophy. It’s not just a code platform, it’s a full DevSecOps environment. CI/CD is built-in, security tools are native, governance is centralized, and you can even self-host it with the open-source edition. Many companies choose it because they want one platform to manage everything from planning to deployment. So the question isn’t really “which one is better?”. It’s more like “which vision matches the way you work?”. One focuses on velocity and massive adoption. The other focuses on deep integration and full end-to-end control. If you’ve used either platform in your projects, I’d really love to hear your experience. What actually makes a difference in your daily workflow? And what would you pick again if you had to start from scratch? Your insights will definitely help others who are still trying to choose the right tool. #GitHub #GitLab #DevOps #DevSecOps

A lot of developers rely on GitHub every single day, but the moment you ask them how it truly differs from GitLab, the answers often get blurry. And honestly, I understand why, on la surface they look similar, yet they don’t serve the same vision at all. GitHub has become the place where the world writes code together. Backed by Microsoft and fueled by a massive open-source community, it’s built for speed, simplicity, and collaboration. Actions, Codespaces, Dependabot… everything is designed to help teams move quickly and stay focused on building. GitLab, on the other hand, follows a completely different philosophy. It’s not just a code platform, it’s a full DevSecOps environment. CI/CD is built-in, security tools are native, governance is centralized, and you can even self-host it with the open-source edition. Many companies choose it because they want one platform to manage everything from planning to deployment. So the question isn’t really “which one is better?”. It’s more like “which vision matches the way you work?”. One focuses on velocity and massive adoption. The other focuses on deep integration and full end-to-end control. If you’ve used either platform in your projects, I’d really love to hear your experience. What actually makes a difference in your daily workflow? And what would you pick again if you had to start from scratch? Your insights will definitely help others who are still trying to choose the right tool. #GitHub #GitLab #DevOps #DevSecOps

Github has had 95 incidents in last 90 days. That is more than 1 incident daily. Their SLA promises 99.9% uptime but they have been able to maintain less than 90% That means even if you shut down your product for 1 whole month last year, you still have more uptime than them. Reason is still not clear. But I suspect, since the code commit velocity has increased drastically in last months, The cracks are emerging. Usually with sufficient time between the incidents, dev interventions can fix things. But, at this scale of accelerated usage of product, even the smallest of cracks can become valleys, if not addressed swiftly. Any product's success would depend upon - infrastructure resilience - code quality and most importantly, Proactive foresight while making micro tech decisions. But humans can't foresee everything, we are bound to make mistakes, Which will be visible in our decisions, in our code, and in AI trained on our data. So it's not about avoiding mistakes. Maybe it's about fixing, learning and not repeating What do you think? yeah yeah just let me in🙂 #tech #coding #github #saas

🚨 Is GitHub's reliability hurting your team? I've been talking with many customers recently, and a common theme keeps coming up — frustration with GitHub's service health. Outages, degraded performance, and uncertainty around uptime are slowing teams down. If that sounds familiar, there's a path forward. In 3 days, I'll be running a free workshop walking through how to migrate from GitHub to GitLab — step by step, no guesswork. You'll leave with a clear migration plan, practical tips, and confidence to make the switch. 👉 Interested? Join us here: https://lnkd.in/d-ckV-9G Quinten Dismukes, Colin Stevenson, Thiago Magro, Adrian Tigert #GitLab #GitHub #DevOps #Migration #Workshop