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It is now confirmed, Microsoft say is buying code-repository platform, GitHub for $7.5b (about the same amount it paid for Nokia’s mobile business four years ago. GitHub was valued at $2b three years ago). Well this is not by any way the biggest Microsoft acquisition so far, you’ll recall that Microsoft had to fork out $26.2b to buy social professional networking site LinkedIn two years ago. Like I said in my last article , it makes sense for Microsoft to be buying GitHub at the this time from business to technology reasons but for starters, GitHub is probably the largest code repository and has big companies including Google and Microsoft hosting some projects on it including documentation. The platform reportedly has 85 million repositories with 28 million developers contributing hence the tag; the nerdy Facebook or Facebook for developers. Under the new arrangement, GitHub gets a new CEO in the person of Nat Friedman, the founder of Xamarin who will in turn report to M...

Just last night, Bloomberg broke the news that Microsoft was buying coding platform GitHub . The formal declaration is expected later today though. According to the report, “GitHub preferred selling the company to going public and chose Microsoft partially because it was impressed by Nadella, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. Terms of the agreement weren’t known on Sunday. GitHub was last valued at $2 billion in 2015.” That said, it is also reported that developers did not take the news well as some have threatened to switch to a rival, GitLab. As much as the developers may not be happy with the deal which could mean integration of more Microsoft tools and platforms but be that as it may, Microsoft is the biggest software maker in the world and it only makes sense that it would be one to acquire it. Azure is the certainly the big price here for Microsoft which will further bring the compete ion to AWS. By a...

GitHub said its website was hit by 1.3 terabits of data per second, the largest recorded DDoS attack in history on February 28, 2018. The world"s biggest developer platform suffered from a series of outages before asking for assistance from Akamai Prolexic (a leading DDoS mitigation services company), who assumed control of the traffic by steering everything through its bigger servers. By doing this, they eased the burden on GitHub servers while filtering out the malicious content. The bad actors inevitably surrendered and GitHub continued its normal operations in under 10 minutes. Now the attackers were able to back off at some point because it takes resources even on their part to carry out attacks as big as that. In such cases it either you sit out the attack by doing nothing or engage the services of anti-DDoS companies to filter out the unwanted traffic. According to an incident report from GitHub, they said “Between 17:21 and 17:30 UTC on February 28th we identifi...