What is GitHub Universe ??
GitHub Universe is a global developer event organised each year, both online and in-person that focuses on cloud, security, community, and AI.
It was held on 9 and 10 Nov this year and I attended it online. This blog contains my learnings and experience from the event
The recording for the event is available to watch on-demand for anyone. check it out here.
if you like to code and don't know what Git / GitHub is, you are missing out on a lot of amazing stuff, there are a bunch of tutorials and blogs available and it is highly recommended to learn this as it will save you a lot of trouble.
Day 1️⃣ ( Nov-9 )
This Day started with a Keynote Session led by the CEO of GitHub, Thomas Dohmke following many other folks from GitHub and majorly had product announcements and showcases along with updates to the platform and how its better than ever.
Also, in the very beginning of the keynote session, there were some musicians who were creating music from code. That was particularly interesting and intriguing to watch.
Github Copilot
Copilot is just an awesome technology, it is an AI that helps you code faster, better and more efficiently.
Note - if you are a beginner please do not use this, it is not the answer to make you a better coder. firstly learn to code yourself and when you are moderate or expert in the field you can use it to develop faster and then a little bit of help here and there from copilot won't hurt.
Github Codespaces
Codespaces are basically your very own computer in the cloud. you can spin up a dev environment quickly and start developing, GitHub automatically takes cares of your dependencies and stuff and you don't have to worry about importing and configuring you machine to whatever you are developing. This particularly helps a lot if you don't have a very good machine and you need compute power and stuff. It is available for every GitHub user for upto 60 hrs per month for free.
Hey, GitHub
This is taking copilot to another level and in my opinion kinda overkill, it is a voice assistant just like Siri or google assistant which can take voice inputs and turn them into code and even run your code file. you don't even need to touch your keyboard. learn more
Student Developer Pack
Github offers a student developer pack which has a lot of benefits from GitHub and other partner companies for students and you can get access to all paid GitHub tools like codespaces and copilot for free as long as you are a student. learn more
did attend a few more amazing sessions and that's how my day 1 concluded !
Visit Github Next to know more about what does the future for software development look like.
Day 2️⃣ ( 10 Nov )
Day 2 was the most fun even when the absolute show stealers of day 1 were GitHub copilot and hey,github .
From right here, right now, to galaxies far away
In this session the conversation revolved around Open-source software and how its making the world a better place
from how open source software powers The JWST ( James Webb Space Telescope ) and Mars Helicopter ( Ingenuity ) to ROS ( Robot Operating System ) and helping Ukraine in the times of crisis.
Building an AI artist with codespaces and replicate
A talk given by Zeke Sikelianos in which he talks about how stable-diffusion can be employed to create your very own AI Model for image generation
Quantum development with codespaces
A talk by Sarah Kaiser on how codespaces can be employed to reduce the barriers in quantum development (Quantum Computing)
Data Science and Machine Learning for codespaces
from setting up your very own dev environment for ML to some good practises, Tanmayee Kamath talks about making ML and Data Science easy for everyone, even if you don't have a computer capable of pulling ML Loads.
10 Years of the Octoverse
A talk given by the VP of DevRel for Github, Martin Woodward where he talks about the state of open source software and how has it changed in the last 10 years and how people, communities, organizations, and companies collaborate and invest in open source software. Changing the world one pull request at a time.
He takes you through some of the important achievements in open-source and how this year was truly incredible for the open source community and developers all around the world.
Some of the Key Takeaways from the Session 📝
over 94 million developers on GitHub with 20 million this year alone.
Big Tech is building big communities.
OpenSource is stronger than ever.
Over 31 million issues closed and 227 million PR's merged.
413 million contributions to open source projects on GitHub in 2022 alone.
- India is going strong. 😎
read the full report here .
Conclusion 🧐
This conference was totally worth the time as i came to know about many amazing tools and technologies and learned a lot.
can't wait to apply my learning and get better. 😃
Hope to attend this event in-person sometime. 🤞
As always, Thank you very much for taking out the time to read this blog and see you in the next one. 👋