As developers, we found ourselves very often in situations where we need to protect certain data or variables not only from potential attacks but from users as well. When developing a mobile application, a web platform, even a single page application we use to rely on different libraries or third-party services (for instance Google Maps for location, Facebook or Google for signing in, and so on), as well as API credentials (being on our very own server or an external one), and SSH-keys for remote connection. In synthesis, we are speaking of sensitive information.

To keep our code safe and secure, we can host our code in different repositories, being the most used GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. The recent  acquisition of Github by the tech giant Microsoft made most users evaluate the repository they were using, depending on the features they needed and how they felt with each platform. The actual share on providers can be reflected in the following graphic:

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