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Opening keynote

Opening keynote

Opening keynote

Opening keynote

Opening keynote

Opening keynote

Built to grow: How the world's largest company creates a codebase that scales

Open source and AI are having a transformational effect on businesses big and small. As the world's largest company, Walmart’s engineering team is in a unique position—one where even the smallest technical decisions have large-scale impact.

From the the supply chain to the customer journey, Fiona Tan, SVP, Customer Technology and Artificial Intelligence at Walmart, discusses how to build on your code base to meet the demands of a growing digital economy. Learn what it really means to "deploy at scale" from the team’s experience serving over 300 million customers every week, aiding in recovery from natural disasters, supporting social causes, and more.

The world's largest company explains why the future needs more women who code

While women comprised 37% of computer science graduates in 1984, only 18% pursue the field today. Increasing the number of women who can code and specifically in the growing field of artificial intelligence, is critical. Fiona Tan, Senior Vice President of Customer Technology at Walmart Labs, the technology division innovating new solutions for Walmart Stores and Walmart eCommerce, discusses why women are fundamental to the future of the self-learning algorithms that power A.I. and why closing the gender gap in STEM is not only important for business, but important for society.

Innersource and the power of automation at Eli Lilly

How can large companies build like the open source community? Eli Lilly struck out on a journey to create a more open developer community—one that encourages sharing, drives code reuse, and builds better software, faster than ever.

In this session, you’ll learn how engineering teams at Eli Lilly shifted from locked down repositories to open collaboration and automated service offerings, along with a few tips and tricks for working better together. You’ll also hear how automation supported teams as they adopted GitHub Business Cloud and made it simple for engineers across the organization to configure repositories, enforce security policies, and more.

Let me entertain you: how theater can influence developer communities

“Engineers are people, too: They like the be entertained” been an ongoing mantra in Sentry.io's monthly meetup. As a former musical theater actress, Chloe Condon found that many meetups, conferences, and events lack the “entertainment” she was used to consuming “on stage”. Yes, the talks are highly technical, and no, the speakers aren't singing or dancing—but isn’t there a way to make these entertaining?

Armed with a theatre degree, a certificate from Hackbright, and all of the lines and lyrics of Legally Blonde the musical memorized, Chloe set out to make a community event that was not only informational, but entertaining, too. In this talk, you'll find out how Sentry turned

Code you can hold: Making your first IoT wearable

Modern microcontrollers make it easy to bring your code out of the digital world and into the physical. Learn how any software engineer can get started with microcontroller programming, beginning with the Particle Photon board, a wifi-enabled microcontroller. You already know how to code. Now you just need a basic understanding of circuits and familiarity with the latest tools. Let’s pick up our soldering irons and put on safety goggles—it’s time to make things.

GitHub Learning Lab: Teaching robots to teach

GitHub is more than a home for code. It’s a forum for collaboration, a sandbox for testing, a launchpad for deployment, and often, a platform for learning new skills. GitHub Learning Lab helps developer grow through active learning experiences without leaving GitHub. The app engages with students in issues and pull requests as they learn and guides them along their journey, responding to their activity and tracking their progress.

In this talk, we’ll share how we built Learning Lab using public GitHub APIs and Probot, a framework for building GitHub Apps. We’ll also share implementation details for reusable API abstractions called “actions” - using these actions, you can build your own courses on Learning Lab to teach developers how you work, what your product or integration does, or something completely new.

Building an agile AI research-to-production experience

One of the greatest advantages for leaders in AI innovation comes from the ability to quickly bring cutting-edge research to large-scale production. Earlier this year, Facebook announced the roadmap for PyTorch 1.0. Continuing in the open source spirit of its predecessors, PyTorch 1.0 is being developed completely in the open with contributors from major academic and industry research institutes, utilizing open source platforms and tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Conda, and Python PIP. PyTorch 1.0 combines the scalability of Caffe2 with PyTorch’s flexible front end to create a multi-faceted deep learning system that delivers an accelerated end-to-end research-to-production experience. Come learn about PyTorch 1.0, and how it can help you embed AI into your workflow with strong GitHub community support.

API mashup: Combining APIs using GraphQL schema stiching

In music, a mashup is a song created by blending two or more existing songs into a whole new piece. The best mashups are seamless and natural. They’re just good songs.

In today’s golden age of APIs, nobody would be surprised if you used more than six APIs in a project. But, like songs, they all work slightly differently. You also have to remember which data is located in which API and what fields indicate a foreign key to another API.

What we need are API mashups. By stitching together multiple GraphQL schemas we can take away the overhead of having to remember where data is located and how to resolve references between them. In this talk, you’ll learn how to use schema stitching to annotate the GitHub API with metadata about the repositories and users in an organization, resulting in a more powerful API that’s ready to build great tooling with less effort.

Infrastructure as product: Building GitHub's future

The future of infrastructure is bright, and new tools let us focus on who we’re building for instead of how we're building. At its heart, infrastructure exists to solve peoples' problems. The key to choosing the right tools is seeing infrastructure for what it is: A product used by people.

This talk presents the story of Moda—GitHub's internal service platform. Moda is a set of tools, practices, and ideas for running software on Kubernetes. We’ll share how we approached big infrastructure changes, what has worked well, and why we made the decisions we did. Our success is rooted in treating infrastructure like a product, remembering that we build tools to enable other developers, and focusing on what can help them build the future of software.

This talk is about the big picture, not the day-to-day details, so you won’t need prior knowledge of containers or Kubernetes to participate or benefit.

From side project to profitable business on GitHub Marketplace

Want to build a profitable side project? In this session I will share the story of how my GitHub App that began as a side project became a successful business used by over 400 companies including Pivotal, Automattic, and Webflow. You'll learn about how GitHub Marketplace empowers independent developers to become entrepreneurs and tips for how you can build your own GitHub Apps for fun or profit.

Leveling up WebAssembly itself: Going from MVP to brave new world

What if your "Hello World" project could have an impact on the real world? What if your first code could control a structure like the ARCH?

Sponsored by Mozilla for close to 2,000 attendees at GitHub Universe 2018, the ARCH Light Art Installation is the first truly immersive "code expressed into art" experience. Anyone can contribute to this interactive, multi-sensory installation—the first of its kind to visualize the power of JavaScript and WebAssembly as animation with over 30,000 colored LEDs.

In this talk, we’ll start with the narrative of collaboration with experiential artist Ian Brill who created the ARCH piece and progress into how code can express 3D Space (perhaps 4D if you include time) in computing power. Then we’ll dive into why this structure is a good mental model for how WebAssembly and JavaScript work together through something called linear memory.

Integrating continuous integration and deployment with GitHub’s API

Continuous Integration (CI) is a software practice that requires frequently committing code to a shared repository. When you commit code more often, it can raise errors much sooner which is why this talk will introduce you to how you can leverage the new Deployments & Checks API alongside your CI to improve your development workflow and reducing the amount of cognitive load code a developer needs for debugging to find the source of the error.

The keys to open source success for enterprise teams

From security considerations to culture transformations, starting and maintaining successful open source initiatives at a large company isn’t easy—but the results speak for themselves. With some workflow and policy adjustments, you can bring open source to your organization to see increases in collaboration and product quality.

In this panel, you’ll hear real-life examples from Comcast, Oracle, and Zalando about how their teams have navigated red tape, encouraged innovation, and taken products to the next level on their journey to open source adoption.

Baking security into GitHub workflows without slowing you down

Open source security management, licensing compliance, and quality assessment, are becoming essential for developers working to build software faster. Developers are required to validate the security of open source components they use, and importantly, prioritize how they handle actual security vulnerabilities, enabling a significant reduction of security vulnerability risk while maintaining productivity. On average, more than 80 percent of reported security vulnerabilities in open source libraries are not referenced by the developers’ code, but there's little visibility between the two.

In this session, you'll learn how functions such as vulnerability discovery and impact analysis can help developers focus on real security risks that affect their applications, pinpointing the calls to vulnerable code, down to the pertinent filename and line number. You'll also see how to use security checks in GitHub to tap into the normal SDLC working environment with integrations like the Checks API.

Observability pre-release: using Prometheus to test and fix new software

The pillars of observability have long been accepted as key components of any microservice-in-production. But what about those new products—those new features—that have yet to be released? Properly instrumenting and leveraging metrics at this stage is perhaps even more crucial. When a product is yet to be released, identifying and addressing early bugs is critical.

See how the team at Digital Ocean leveraged Prometheus to properly instrument and test features within their software-defined networking pillar. This session will highlight instrumentation, key visualizations, and takeaways from their experience. You’ll also hear about areas for improvement and find out how to use these learnings for your own releases.

Innersource at JPL: Building software like an open source community in a science, engineering, and research enterprise

In 2013, a number of employees at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory believed the tools that were so successfully supporting open source software could support development at JPL, too. Core to this belief was the theory that software development teams at JPL operated similarly to the open source community.

Known as innersource, this theory has been put into practice in a number of companies. Learn why JPL cares about innersource, how they champion open source development principles on GitHub Enterprise, and what progress they’ve made so far.

Migrating from Gerrit to GitHub Enterprise

Gerrit is a Git hosting service and code review tool that functions like GitHub with several key feature differences. ServiceNow recently migrated their entire development team and several other teams from Gerrit to GitHub Enterprise for internal code hosting and code review. Learn how the team solved—and continues to solve—their most pressing social and technical challenges.

The keys to open source success for enterprise teams

From security considerations to culture transformations, starting and maintaining successful open source initiatives at a large company isn’t easy—but the results speak for themselves. With some workflow and policy adjustments, you can bring open source to your organization to see increases in collaboration and product quality.

In this panel, you’ll hear real-life examples from Comcast, Oracle, and Zalando about how their teams have navigated red tape, encouraged innovation, and taken products to the next level on their journey to open source adoption.

Deep dive into GitHub’s newest features

GitHub has shipped a lot of features in the past few months that you might not even know about. In this talk, I will show you some features that we’ve added to GitHub that you might not have known about, how you can use them as part of your day to day workflows, and dive a bit deeper into some of the new features we shared in our keynote.

Is your engineering team high-performing? How to measure team speed and quality

Airlines have on-time arrival. Retail has sales per square foot. Marketing teams have cost per acquisition. Manufacturing has yield and safety scores. But how do we measure the performance of engineering teams, and why is understanding team performance important?

This session looks at anonymized team data to share insights, behaviors, and metrics that help teams build better software, faster. We'll examine the anonymized, aggregate data from millions of builds for best practices on commits, pull requests, disaster recovery, frequency of deploy, and more.

Seven things you won't believe Atom can do: editor tools, efficiency, and the psychology of making habits stick

Developer tools can be an efficiency multiplier, but tools only help when you actually use them. It's also tough to balance time between "learning to use your tools better" and "getting things done." Get an introduction to the psychology of making habits stick and hear about some lesser-known yet powerful features of Atom, the hackable text editor. From real-time collaborative text editing to built-in Git integration, there's a lot you might not know your editor can do.

Advocating for open source: A journey into open development with Lloyd's Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group is a financial services group with millions of customers and a presence in nearly every UK community, both online and on the local high street. With more than one million businesses serviced through their brands, the hopes for creating the bank of the future is firmly locked in the sights of this digitally transforming organization.

In order to hit their ambitious goal, Lloyds Banking Group is changing from a traditionally introverted bank, hardened to risk through years of manual process, into an open and collaborative organization where innovation and experimentation are driven by engineering and automation.

During this talk you’ll learn how Lloyds Banking Group journeyed into innersource with the formation of engineering guilds and how this lead to the adoption of GitHub Enterprise from proof of concept to widespread use. We’ll also explore how engineering guilds formed the GitHub Enterprise Working Group to share successes and educate on best practices, while safeguarding the operation of their engineering community.

Finally, we’ll tell the story of how Lloyds Banking Group is moving fast toward open source, powered by the determination and ambition of engineers—and how GitHub Solutions Engineers are mentoring this enthusiasm to give back to the community.

From Monorail to Monorepo: Airbnb's journey into microservices

Airbnb has grown exponentially over the last few years—and so has their codebase. Most of Airbnb's code lives in a monolithic Rails application called Monorail. Despite having hundreds of contributors, the team is still able to ship fast and frequently. Hear some of the unique challenges Airbnb faces as their engineering team grows and see how they plan to transition toward a service-oriented architecture—a multi-year effort involving hundreds of engineers across the company.

Open source for good: the people and projects driving change

Developer Stories: Addressing Social Problems with Code

Cross-company collaboration: extending GitHub to a new IDE

Independently, the VSCode Team at Microsoft and the Editor Tools Team at GitHub began exploring the possibility of an integration between their two products. The team at Microsoft started to design a pull request experience within VSCode, while the GitHub Team prototyped one modeled after the same experience in Visual Studio. By chance, the two teams met and showed each other nearly identical prototypes. The coincidence sparked the collaboration that brought you an integrated GitHub experience in VSCode supported by the VSCode API.

In this session, you’ll get an overview of how two companies worked together to support collaborative and open source development. You’ll also hear about the latest features and learn how you can contribute.

Cross-company collaboration: extending GitHub to a new IDE

Independently, the VSCode Team at Microsoft and the Editor Tools Team at GitHub began exploring the possibility of an integration between their two products. The team at Microsoft started to design a pull request experience within VSCode, while the GitHub Team prototyped one modeled after the same experience in Visual Studio. By chance, the two teams met and showed each other nearly identical prototypes. The coincidence sparked the collaboration that brought you an integrated GitHub experience in VSCode supported by the VSCode API.

In this session, you’ll get an overview of how two companies worked together to support collaborative and open source development. You’ll also hear about the latest features and learn how you can contribute.

Moving from mono to multi: How Continental Corporation manages a distributed code base

When working on larger software projects—like autonomous driving or complex embedded controller logics—you’ll eventually need to decide how to organize your code base. Whether you choose multiple Git repositories or a mono repo, you’ll have to deal with both pros and cons. Even if it’s the cleaner solution from a configuration management perspective, the additional complexity of handling a multi-repository setup often rules it out.

The team at Continental recently switched from a mono to a multi-repository approach because of our code base’s requirements for embedded development. They have to deal with strongly dependent and optimized code while supporting many variants in product configuration.

With MegaMerger, Continental solved the issue of delivering change sets that are spread across multiple repositories and can be built, tested, and merged as part of an automatic transaction. Their goal was to apply the pull request model to repositories that are connected with submodules or a repository configuration. Their GitHub App controls and synchronizes multiple pull requests without imposing any special requirements on the underlying build system to obtain the change set.

Get an introduction to the given automotive embedded environment that lead to Continental’s decision, along with the workflow schema and the design decision implemented in the MegaMerger toolset. You’ll also see what limitations the team is facing, learn how to deal with distributed code bases, and see what’s possible when integrating with GitHub.

Github Enterprise at scale: Behind the scenes at Salesforce.com

Wondering how to get started with GitHub Enterprise? This session is for you—especifically if you're looking to migrate or onboard a team of hundreds or thousands of developers. This talk will take you through why Salesforce started using GitHub, the tools they created to simplify migration, and how Github Enterprise has helped them change the face of DevOps.

The keys to open source success for enterprise teams

From security considerations to culture transformations, starting and maintaining successful open source initiatives at a large company isn’t easy—but the results speak for themselves. With some workflow and policy adjustments, you can bring open source to your organization to see increases in collaboration and product quality.

In this panel, you’ll hear real-life examples from Comcast, Oracle, and Zalando about how their teams have navigated red tape, encouraged innovation, and taken products to the next level on their journey to open source adoption.

Github Enterprise at scale: Behind the scenes at Salesforce.com

Wondering how to get started with GitHub Enterprise? This session is for you—especifically if you're looking to migrate or onboard a team of hundreds or thousands of developers. This talk will take you through why Salesforce started using GitHub, the tools they created to simplify migration, and how Github Enterprise has helped them change the face of DevOps.

Connecting your software lifecycle with GitHub’s platform

State of the Octoverse

Connecting your software lifecycle with GitHub’s platform

Github Enterprise at scale: Behind the scenes at Salesforce.com

Wondering how to get started with GitHub Enterprise? This session is for you—especifically if you're looking to migrate or onboard a team of hundreds or thousands of developers. This talk will take you through why Salesforce started using GitHub, the tools they created to simplify migration, and how Github Enterprise has helped them change the face of DevOps.

The keys to open source success for enterprise teams

From security considerations to culture transformations, starting and maintaining successful open source initiatives at a large company isn’t easy—but the results speak for themselves. With some workflow and policy adjustments, you can bring open source to your organization to see increases in collaboration and product quality.

In this panel, you’ll hear real-life examples from Comcast, Oracle, and Zalando about how their teams have navigated red tape, encouraged innovation, and taken products to the next level on their journey to open source adoption.