Brewing GitHub

GitHub just turned 5 years old. During that time, it grew from a small team of 4 to 171 employees all over the globe, working on their own schedules, and without any managers.

This talk will dive into how GitHub ships: how we ship GitHub’s culture, how we work day to day, how we get everyone at GitHub (including business teams) to use Git & Github, and how you can use these workflows in your company today.

Transcript

1. Brewing
   GitHub
   

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2. The Story of github
   

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3. kyle daigle
   Twitter.com/kdaigle
   Github.com/kdaigle
   

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5. Once upon a time,
   in a bar...
   

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6. @pjhyett @@mojombo@@defunkt
   

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7. distributed version control
   Better version control
   

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8. launched
   APRIL 10th 2008
   

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9. Bootstrapped
   

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10. No office
    

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11. No office
    Coffee shops
    

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12. No office
    Coffee shops
    houses
    

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13. No office
    Coffee shops
    houses
    traveling
    

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14. No office
    Coffee shops
    houses
    traveling
    no hours
    

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15. 3.6 million users
    7 Million repos
    

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16. Github.com
    

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17. Github.com
    github enterprise
    

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18. Github.com
    github enterprise
    training
    

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19. Github.com
    github enterprise
    training
    github jobs
    

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23. Culture:
    

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24. Culture:
    the trifecta
    

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25. Optimize
    for happiness
    

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26. First Principles
    fundamentals
    

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27. Taste
    Beautiful, tasteful, simple
    

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28. Culture
    How We use
    

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29. Happiness
    Where you are
    

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30. Remote
    more
    than
    half
    

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34. Asynchronous
    

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35. Pull requests
    Chat
    Team
    Issues Repos
    Log Everything
    

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38. Hubot
    Chat ops
    

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39. module.exports = (robot) ->
    robot.respond /have a beer/i, (msg) ->
    # Get number of beers had (coerced to a number).
    beersHad = robot.brain.get('totalBeers') * 1 or 0
    if beersHad > 4
    msg.respond "I'm too drunk.."
    else
    msg.respond 'Sure!'
    robot.brain.set 'totalBeers', beersHad+1
    

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40. Pull Requests
    Rule everything
    around me
    

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41. Master
    

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42. Master
    feature-branch
    

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43. Master
    feature-branch
    Master
    

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44. Master
    feature-branch
    Master
    

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45. Master
    feature-branch
    Master
    Just Add Deployment!
    

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47. Don’t Separate
    tools for tech from
    tools for everyone
    

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50. Love To Travel
    Hubbers
    

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51. We Travel Tons
    Summit
    Conferences
    Mini-Summit
    Talks Vacation
    

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55. Work where you want
    

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56. Work where you want
    Work when You Want
    

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57. Work where you want
    Work when You Want
    Work when you work best
    

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58. Work on What You Want
    

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59. Work on What You Want
    Wait what?
    

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60. Code Search
    

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61. Code Search
    

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62. Code Search
    

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63. Search Team
    

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64. No Managers
    

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65. No Managers
    

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66. Open Source
    We work like
    

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67. You Wake Up
    Work on what
    And LOVE to do
    

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68. Avoid Burnout
    

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69. Avoid Burnout
    Speakerdeck
    

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70. Avoid Burnout
    Halp
    Speakerdeck
    

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71. Avoid Burnout
    Halp
    Speakerdeck
    Finance
    

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72. Passion:
    You can’t fake it
    

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73. Octocat
    Driven happiness
    

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74. Octocat
    

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76. octodex.github.com
    

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79. Hiring
    Wicked important
    

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80. Ship Early, Ship Often
    

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81. Have Compatible Taste
    Not same taste
    

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82. github.com/Yourname
    Helps too
    

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83. Onboarding
    Shipping Hubbers
    

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84. Great First
    Run Experience
    First Day
    

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85. Boxen
    “The Setup”
    

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86. Boxen
    “The Setup”
    Automate
    It!
    

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87. curl -s https://you.com/script/abc123.sh > /
    tmp/install-boxen
    bash /tmp/install-boxen
    

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88. boxen github
    

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89. script/setup
    rake setup:update
    

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90. class people::kdaigle {
    include alfred
    include chrome
    include dropbox
    include onepassword
    include skype
    include sublime_text_2
    include iterm2::stable
    include bash::completion
    include rdio
    include github::apps::mac
    include github::apps::play
    include github::apps::team
    include projects::github
    class { 'osx::global::key_repeat_delay':
    delay => 5
    }
    include osx::global::key_repeat_rate
    include osx::disable_app_quarantine
    include osx::global::disable_key_press_and_hold
    }
    

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91. I can deploy to
    Github.com
    First Day
    

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92. Happiness
    from our tools
    

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93. Build A Painkiller
    Fight the Pain
    

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94. First Principles
    Use
    For everything
    

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95. Heroku
    Amazon EC2
    Data center
    What Makes Sense
    For now
    

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96. Continuous Everything
    with janky
    

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97. WithJanky:
    

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98. WithJanky:
    Setup Repos from chat
    

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99. WithJanky:
    Setup Repos from chat
    Test every branch
    

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100. WithJanky:
     Setup Repos from chat
     Test every branch
     Update repo with status
     

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101. Ship it!
     

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102. /deploy finance to production
     /deploy finance to staging
     /deploy finance/feature-branch to
     staging
     

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103. GitHub
     

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104. GitHub50 times a day
     

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105. Over 100 times a day
     

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106. Internal Tools
     Are really good
     Our
     

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112. Culture All The Things
     In Summary,
     

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113. “Never do something just
     because other people do
     it that way.”
     “Do it because it’s the best
     way to solve the problem.”
     

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114. This Works For Us
     

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115. This Works For Us
     But it’s changing everyday
     

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116. Thanks!
     Twitter.com/kdaigle
     Github.com/kdaigle
     

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