The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure
We moved a copy of 99.99999% of GitHub’s repositories to Azure. Here’s how per-reference quorums will bring over the rest, and how object storage lets reads scale independently.
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From 2,500 requests to 24: Rebuilding star history without the stargazers
Our new repo star history API now provides trends without returning individual identities or requiring unbounded database work. These are the engineering tradeoffs we made.
Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development
We’re rebuilding GitHub’s Git infrastructure while GitHub keeps running, creating a foundation for agent-scale software development.
Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app
How we rebuilt the diff surface in the GitHub Copilot app to open a million-line pull request with hundreds of inline review comments.
Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot
A rewrite this size wasn’t affordable before agents. Here’s what porting the Copilot agent runtime to 800,000 lines of production Rust actually took.
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