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Updated: October 8, 2024 (October 12, 2020)

  Analyst Report

GitHub Hosts Development, Overlaps with Azure DevOps, VS

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Rob Sanfilippo

Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Rob worked at Microsoft for 14 years where he designed technologies for Microsoft products and... more

  • GitHub is a Microsoft-owned developer service for source code control and several other software development collaboration and implementation functions.
  • It works especially well for dispersed teams, and new projects can be quickly provisioned without the overhead required by on-premises alternatives.
  • Visual Studio and Azure DevOps have integration points with GitHub, but GitHub also offers features that overlap with those offerings.
  • Many GitHub capabilities are free, even for large, private development projects.

GitHub is the world’s largest and most popular source code hosting service, and it was acquired by Microsoft in 2018. GitHub’s feature set continues to grow, making it an alternative to Microsoft’s traditional developer tools for some teams and projects.

Largest Code Hosting Service

GitHub, a hosted service accessed using several client options, was launched in 2008. It is built upon the Git open-source software version control system. The service rapidly became popular with open source development communities, and it presently hosts more than 100 million source code repositories for more than 50 million developers.

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