



Software development takes forever
There are three basic software product development problems: it takes forever, will cost all of your money, and will probably fail. Software development’s problems boil down to time, cost, and risk. In a sense, industry progress consists of steps that make one of these factors slightly less bad. This article explores the first of these problems. Nothing to see Software development looks slow because you don’t have anything to...





Sunsetting Subversion support
Hello from Git Systems, the team that works on the Subversion subsystem at GitHub. As of January 8, 2024 (about a year from now), we will sunset Subversion support completely on GitHub.com. A release of GitHub Enterprise Server sometime in early 2024 will also remove Subversion support. Read on for more details. In 2010, when GitHub introduced Subversion support, the version control landscape was very different. Many customers were...




How GitHub coordinates product releases with GitHub Projects and GitHub Actions
Looking to supercharge cross-functional work at your organization? Here at GitHub, we take pride in using GitHub to release new products and features. Each new product and feature that we release requires a great amount...


It’s time to rethink your approach to SAP monitoring
SAP, the world’s leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, is widely used by organizations across the globe. Since its inception in the 1970s, SAP has become the top choice for supporting the most critical and deeply integrated enterprise applications. In fact, IDC notes that SAP is a market share leader in analytics and business intelligence, ERP and supply chain management. Ninety-nine of the 100 largest companies...



Intercom’s product principles: Building product that’s opinionated by default, but flexible under the hood
Designing a product is a balancing act. At Intercom, we balance strong opinions about the future of customer support with our goal of meeting a huge variety of customer needs. Some customers want a simple,...