One, Integrated Platform. One Purpose.

The following is a readout of my prepared remarks delivered at GitHub Universe 2022. 

Opening:

Good morning! Hello GitHub Universe! It’s great to be here in person! This is amazing! And a big hello to everyone watching remotely! 

I am Thomas. And I’m a developer. 

There’s nothing better, nothing more energizing, than being in a room full of developers! 

Like so many of you, through every stage of my life – my greatest passion has always been to build with code. 

It started in my childhood, writing simple programs in Basic. Then in University, I was using SUSE LINUX and Emacs. In my mid-twenties in my job at an automaker, it was Windows PC and Visual Studio. And today – I’m now in my late twenties – and it’s all on GitHub. It’s now a Codespace, spinning up on my iPad even when I am at the airport.

So much has changed, and since the rise of the internet, open source has been the engine of it all. 

Open source powers the world. Even those that didn’t like open source to begin with are now on board.

Companies large and small are using GitHub side by side with the open source community to build their own products and bring their big ideas to the world. And it’s all of you, together, that have fueled this global economy.

Now, let me share something pretty special. 

Ten years ago, for the first time, we published the Octoverse. We reported 2.8 million developers on GitHub. A year ago, we were at 73 million developers. And today, 94 million developers call us home. This is just amazing! 

But despite how far software development has advanced. Despite how much GitHub has grown, there is even greater change just ahead.

We have arrived at the most significant turning point in the history of software development. 

The past few years have made it clear: we live in a world now fully eaten by software. Every day is punctuated from beginning to end by our interactions with software. 

From the moment your alarm goes off, to your commute and your day at work, to the second you set your alarm before you sleep, you cannot escape using software. 

And building, running, and maintaining all this software for the world has never been more complex. 

As a developer, you can’t just build a great product anymore: You have to build it securely!You have to build it fast! You have to build a hundred times a day! 

And in all this, developers are still expected to deliver the best creations of their lives – every single day. 

As a developer myself, having to do all that work, and string together, and self host all my own tools sure as hell isn’t something that I want! 

It’s not solving my problems! And it’s not putting the developer first. 

We are at a breaking point. It’s time for a change. It’s time to iterate and build a new developer experience. 

It's no longer about how we can equip developers with the tools to do more for the sake of doing more.  Now we must equip developers with everything they need to be at their best! And to be happier.

Because developers do their best work when they can actually enjoy the work they want to do. When they have innovations that take the weight off, not add more. And when they have one, integrated platform to do it all. 

One place that enables the flow state where the magic happens. As the home of all developers, we at GitHub have made it our mission to build this one, integrated platform where developers can do it all. 

And it all starts…with code.

Closing: 

Fifteen years ago, the first line of code was committed to build GitHub. Since then, we’ve always had just one purpose: To put developers first. 

Over the years, through every iteration – from the pull request to Copilot – this has remained our mission. 

Because putting the developer first also puts everyone who depends on a developer first! 

And fifteen years later, we’ve arrived at a moment where this is more necessary than ever. 

Today, you’ve seen our biggest innovations yet, across the entire developer lifecycle. 

From picking up your next task in Issues and Projects…To booting your dev environment with Codespaces… Then, in your editor completing your code with Copilot…To even using your voice with Hey GitHub…

Then when you’re done with coding…

It goes to submitting your Pull Request…To securing your code with Advanced Security…To automating everything with Actions…To the more than 15,000 integrations in our Marketplace…Integrations with the whole developer ecosystem.

And – through everything, collaborating with the open source community who empower us all. All these things standing on their own would have seemed like science fiction just fifteen years ago. 

But it’s what all these innovations are designed to achieve together that is most important. Like we’ve always done, we built this new developer experience. This one, integrated platform, for one single purpose: To put developers first! 

Because ultimately, developers will build their best, when they have one single place to do it all. One place, with everything developers need to be creative, to be happy, to build a better, more brilliant tomorrow for everyone. And GitHub is that one place. The only place, where this is truly possible.

Thank you so much for being here today. And thank you for coming with us on the journey ahead.  Let’s build from here!