Github announces 4 new initiatives for Developers at Satellite Virtual 2020
GitHubOpens a new window recently concluded its first ever virtual conference, aptly named Satellite Virtual 2020. t The event saw the release of much needed virtual or remote collaboration tools for software development. The releases follow other recent endeavours to support the thriving developer ecosystem, including initiatives such as the launch of GitHub for mobile app, expansion of GitHub Sponsors, making GitHub free for teams, and its acquisition of npm.
At Satellite Virtual 2020, the software development hosting company also announced the following:
- Codespaces
- GitHub Discussions
- Code Scanning and Secret Scanning
- GitHub Private Instances
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Codespaces:
Codespaces is a cloud-based, Visual Studio-powered development environment within GitHub that allows developers to skip the initial configuration and dependencies before making an actual contribution to the project. The dev environment, currently available as a limited public beta release, instantiates in seconds to load code, dependencies, developer tools, extensions, and dotfiles; simply with a click of a button. Basically, Codespace is a web-based Integrated Development Environment, that eliminates the need to create a local development environment, and supplants it with a web browser to enable developers to code from anywhere, at any time, on any device.
Codespaces, released as a limited public beta version, is currently available only for private repositories. Additional support to public repositories as well as those that developers own will eventually be available on the dev environment.
GitHub Discussions
GitHub Discussions is a place for developers to communicate, brainstorm, and build a knowledge base for future collaboration on their projects. GitHub Discussions is a threaded discussion forum, based out of the repository itself, for greater accessibility and organization. GitHub Discussions is currently available as a beta to certain open source communities, with plans to release for public repositories in due course.
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Code Scanning and Secret Scanning
GitHub’s acquisition of Semmle brought code security into the GitHub security lifecycle under Advanced Security by GitHub. Code Scanning and Secret Scanning add to the security of software with new advanced features..
Code Scanning is based on CodeQL, a semantic analysis engine that assists in fishing out security vulnerabilities, and is available for free to open source repositories.
Secret Scanning is a way for customers to identify potential secret formats, now across AWS, Azurem Google Cloud, npm, Stripe and Twilio. Secret Scanning is now also available for private repositories and remains free for public repositories.
GitHub Private Instances
Finally, GitHub’s Private Instances aims to bolster security of repository implementations across enterprises where strict compliances need to be followed. GitHub Private Instances offers a managed approach to maintaining enterprise regulations and compliances with features such as bring-your-own-key encryption, backup archiving, and compliance with regional data sovereignty requirements.
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