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HOW GITHUB IS REBUILDING GIT INFRASTRUCTURE FOR AI AGENTS

github.blog8 min read

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GitHub has placed copies of 99.99999% of its repositories in Azure as agent-driven traffic and data center capacity constraints accelerate its infrastructure migration. This engineering breakdown explains how moving write coordination from entire repositories to individual references reduces contention, delivering 3–4x higher throughput in internal tests.