1. GitHub hosts over 100 million repositories.
2. As of 2023, GitHub has over 73 million users.
3. GitHub hosts a wide range of programming languages, including popular ones like JavaScript, Python, Java, and C++.
4. It provides a platform for version control and collaboration.
5. GitHub offers both free and paid plans for individual and organizational use.
On November 3, 2021, GitHub announced that CEO Nat Friedman, who became CEO when Microsoft acquired GitHub, was stepping down as CEO and GitHub's chief product officer, Thomas Dohmke, would become CEO on November 15.
GitHub has been critical to evolving our software development lifecycle. We now average about 4,000 commits daily, a speed that just wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.
Through internal testing, GitHub’s new Git storage architecture supported 5,000 concurrent agents working on a repo, sending 7,200 pushes per second, all while serving read traffic with consistently low latency.