INSIDE GITHUB'S NEW GIT STORAGE ARCHITECTURE

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GitHub's new Git storage architecture is capable of handling thousands of writes per second with reads that scale on demand. It can support 5,000 concurrent agents working on a repository while serving read traffic with consistently low latency. The new architecture is designed to support agentic development for hundreds of millions of developers. This post walks through the requirements behind the design of the new architecture and explores two of its components.