GitHub is more than a cloud service based on Git, Linus Torvalds' popular revision control system. It's a cultural phenomenon that marks the ascent of a new generation of developers that, although closely associated with open source, displays equally intense allegiance to social coding and the agile development movement.
Arguably the center of the programming universe, GitHub currently boasts 6.8 million users and 15.2 million code repositories, more than double the respective numbers recorded two years ago, when the company attracted $100 million in venture capital from Andreessen Horowitz. The investment came shortly after GitHub's release of an on-premises version of its software, GitHub Enterprise, for customers who prefer to keep their code inside the firewall.
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