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deweytoday at 8:50 PM1 replyview on HN

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When I look at one of the recent blog posts (https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...) I see crazy charts of PR merged, Commits, Repositories created. These are all git operations and not just some slow Rails app.


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dgellowtoday at 8:53 PM

Have you read the article?

> Short term, we had to resolve a variety of bottlenecks that appeared faster than expected from moving webhooks to a different backend (out of MySQL), redesigning user session cache to redoing authentication and authorization flows to substantially reduce database load. We also leveraged our migration to Azure to stand up a lot more compute.

The scaling issues they have don’t have git as the bottleneck from what I understand

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