Scale – Noise

How we improved availability through iterative simplification

Nick Hengeveld — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:00:19 +0000

Solving and staying ahead of problems when scaling up a system of GitHub’s size is a delicate process. Here's a look at some of the tools in GitHub's toolbox, and how we’ve used them to solve problems.

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Scaling merge-ort across GitHub

Matt Cooper — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:00:54 +0000

GitHub switched to performing merges and rebases using merge-ort. Come behind the scenes to see why and how we made this change.

Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

Netflix Technology Blog — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:59:46 +0000

By Jennifer Shin, Tejas Shikhare, Will EmmanuelIn 2022, a major change was made to Netflix’s iOS and Android applications. We migrated Netflix’s mobile apps to GraphQL with zero downtime, which involved a total overhaul from the client to the API layer...

An elastic deployment of Stable Diffusion with Discord on AWS

Steven Warren — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:29:03 +0000

Stable Diffusion is a state-of-the-art text-to-image model that generates images from text. Deploying text-to-image models such as Stable Diffusion can be difficult. Currently, Stable Diffusion requires specific computer hardware known as graphical processing units (GPUs). You can lower the bar to entry by offloading the text-to-image generation onto Amazon Web Services (AWS). Discord is a […]