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AI Coding Assistants in 2025: Why GitHub Copilot Dominates
In the ever-evolving world of software development, 2025 has marked a pivotal year in how code is written, reviewed, and optimized. At the forefront of this revolution stands GitHub Copilot, a tool that not only maintains its momentum but has also solidified its dominance as the go-to AI coding assistant for developers worldwide. Seamless Integration with…
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Enterprise Adoption of GitHub Copilot, What to Consider Before Deploy?
While the specifics of introducing GitHub Copilot Enterprise to your developers will depend on your company’s unique needs, successful rollouts often share common elements. By rolling out GitHub Copilot thoughtfully and considering these factors, you can achieve a greater return on investment, regardless of how many teams are already using it across your organization. Consider carefully…
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How to Implement DevSecOps with GitHub Advanced Security?
The speed of progress in today’s world makes security an afterthought. It is crucial to shift security to the left and include it frequently and early in the development lifecycle. This is what DevSecOps is all about. Additionally, you have a strong ally on this path if you’re already using GitHub for your development repositories:…
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5 Best Practices for GitHub Implementation in Large Organizations
The sheer scale of GitHub is evident in its user base: over 73 million developers and 4 million companies collaborate across more than 200 million repositories, making it the world’s largest source code site. GitHub security can get increasingly complex and difficult to monitor as the organization’s teams expand. Additionally, hackers may be drawn to…
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GitHub Code Scanning Using Third-Party Actions
GitHub’s code scanning helps identify vulnerabilities and errors in your codebase, and while CodeQL is a powerful built-in option, you can also integrate third-party tools for a tailored approach. Configuring code scanning with third-party actions allows you to leverage tools like SonarQube, Checkmarx, or Trivy within GitHub Actions workflows. By uploading results in SARIF format,…
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Code Security with GitHub Code Scanning and CodeQL Custom Queries
For this blog, we’ll enhance the advanced setup in our Instance-Security repo (a Java/Maven project) by creating a custom query pack to test CodeQL’s flexibility. If you haven’t explored our blog on Code Scanning with Advanced CodeQL Setup, we strongly recommend checking it out first, as it’s a prerequisite for following along with this blog.…
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Code Security with GitHub Code Scanning and Advanced CodeQL Setup
Advanced setup for code scanning is ideal when you need a tailored approach to securing your codebase. By crafting and modifying a workflow file, you can customize the scanning process extensively.
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Code Scanning with GitHub and CodeQL
What is Code Scanning? Code scanning is a GitHub feature designed to help developers identify security vulnerabilities and coding errors in their projects before they become bigger problems. It analyzes your code automatically, flags potential issues like SQL injection or cross-site scripting (XSS), and displays them as alerts right in your repository. Picture it as…
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How Does DevSecOps Accelerate Secure Software Development?
Development, operations, and security boundaries have always been porous, but in the last several years, DevSecOps has sparked a paradigm change. This fresh strategy incorporates security standards into the development lifecycle and establishes an ongoing loop of monitoring, enhancement, and automation to check every line of code before it enters production. What Is DevSecOps? One…
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GitHub Copilot vs Traditional Coding: How GitHub Copilot is Transforming Developer Workflows?
Coding has always been a blend of art and logic, requiring hours of debugging and research. But what if there was a way to reduce the grind without sacrificing quality? Enter GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered coding assistant that’s reshaping how developers approach their work. GitHub Copilot’s ability to auto-generate relevant code snippets based on your…