Item: GitHub
Rating: 10
Author: Andrew Vawdrey

Overall Satisfaction with GitHub

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GitHub is being used across all of our development and IT teams. It is being used to manage our code repos and managing out pull requests made by all of our users. It has been great in rolling out clean code and it is easy to manage, roll back and keep our repos going.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy to review, approve/reject and roll out new code
Great for large teams working on one code repo
Has great integrations with many popular Git clients like SourceTree or GitKraken

Cons

Bit of a learning curve but great once you get past it

Return on Investment

All in one review, edit and merging. Saves lots of time and energy
Easy to request reviews from your team to ensure your code will *hopefully* not break anything!

Alternatives Considered

Bitbucket

I haven't used Bitbucket but some of my coworkers have and they said that Github's UI is much easier to work with and works better all around. Again I have only ever used Github, but I don't feel I need to use any others because GitHub fulfills all my needs.

Other Software Used

Cisco Meraki MX Firewalls, New Relic Insights, Ubiquiti Networks UniFi

Likelihood to Recommend

GitHub is a must have for anyone that needs code management, code reviews, and code merging. Github is a perfect solution that will make your code repos delightful to work with. Github gives great access to your team to view your code changes and to approve or suggest changes. If you need changes you can easily edit it right in the browser UI.

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GitHub is best thing since sliced bread