Cursor Details Its S3-Centric Architecture for Hosting Git at Scale
Cursor published a deep-dive article "Git at any scale" by engineer Vicent Martí, exploring the challenges of hosting Git repositories at massive scale. It reveals its Origin storage system, which uses S3 as the single source of truth (Write-Ahead Log) with local NVMe serving only as a cache.
2026-08-21 ~ 2026-08-21 · 3 related posts
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