GitHub handled 7.38B commits in September and is rearchitecting its infra around basics
arpit_bhayani · x · 2026-10-07
GitHub processed 7.38 billion commits in September and is rearchitecting its infrastructure to scale further. Its guiding principles are fundamental: coordinate only when needed, maximize parallelism, do compaction and GC async, trim hot paths, and separate storage from compute. The takeaway: systems drift from basics at scale, and fundamentals outlive.
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