How we built one of the most complex apps on GitHub

Aviator is a developer productivity platform that solves common scaling challenges faced by engineering teams as they grow their team size and code complexity. As you might expect, we are heavily integrated on top of GitHub and have developed a love/hate relationship with it.

So then, why is our relationship love/hate? GitHub works really well for 90% of use cases, but when you start hitting edge cases or when you are building something at scale, things can get complicated very quickly.

Getting started on building a new GitHub app was fairly simple. But we ran into a considerable amount of challenges as we scaled our app.,  Here, I’ll discuss these challenges and how we resolved them.

But GitHub does not provide a no-ff option using their merge API. We had to build our own workaround using a temporary branch and the commit tree to generate a new commit SHA.

Network issues come with working with any third-party API and that’s something we knew going in. There are various types of network issues such as connection errors, readtimeouts, ssl handshake failures, etc, but most of them can be handled in somewhat similar ways. For us, there are two main objectives when handling network issues:

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