How GitHub builds GitHub on GitHub

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GitHub details actual wins and numbers: monolith plus ~3,000 microservices and ~320 engineers, day‑0 dev onboarding drops from ~45 minutes to seconds using GitHub Codespaces, Copilot grows ~35% quarter‑over‑quarter and shows large productivity lifts in studies (one cited ~55% speed, Accenture reports ~50% more builds and ~90% more satisfaction), merge queues automate safe PR merges to replace brittle deploy trains, Projects adds swimlanes/Gantt and a public roadmap, and Actions enforce a single golden path for releases.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 10:31Developer onboarding with Codespaces
3. 17:39Copilot adoption strategy
4. 22:16Planning work with GitHub tools
5. 28:24Automating deployments with merge queues
6. 33:48Streamlining CI/CD with GitHub Actions
7. 43:13Key takeaways

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