Scaling DevOps – GitHub’s Journey from 500+ to 1300+ Employees

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GitHub describes how its DevOps, testing and deployment practices evolved while the company grew from ~500 to ~1300 employees and added features like Security Vulnerability Scanning and an internal CI/CD system. The talk covers concrete changes to workflows (e.g., what scaled or needed replacing) and which principles such as ChatOps and reduced internal email remained valuable.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 9:08Architecture evolution
3. 18:19Fixing flaky tests
4. 25:22ChatOps insights
5. 27:50Developer empowerment

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