Eight lessons learned hacking on GitHub Pages for six months · GitHub

Believe it or not, just over a year ago, GitHub Pages, the documentation hosting service that powers nearly three-quarters of a million sites, was little more than a 100-line shell script. Today, it's a fully independent, feature-rich OAuth application that effortlessly handles well over a quarter million requests per minute. We wanted to take a look back at what we learned from leveling up the service over a six month period.