GitHub logs 7.38B commits in September, 5x year over year, forcing Git infra rebuild
rseroter · x · 2026-10-08
GitHub's engineering blog details rebuilding its Git infrastructure for agent-scale development: monthly Git events grew 2x+ from 218.2B to 473.3B between Sept 2025 and Aug 2026; September alone saw 7.38B commits from developers and agents, over 5x the prior year; the busiest repo handled roughly a billion requests in August. The post covers the demands of concurrent agent workloads and the design principles behind the rebuild.
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