alt Hacker NewsThis is maybe a little less revolutionary than people are treating it? A lot of large tech companies (Google, Facebook, Microsoft) have already built their own homegrown SCM (or have implemented custom extensions to Git), because Git and other SCMs don't handle their scale. Most interesting thing about Scion is how quickly it was deployed.
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nickg-anthropic • today at 8:19 PM
Agreed! One of the main reasons we wanted to share this was that both the speed at which it was built and fully migrated onto and the "way" it was built are novel and show something about the kinds of things that are possible to build now.
> Most interesting thing about Scion is how quickly it was deployed
Yes . And also they optimized for orders of magnitude more throughput and less latency, and fixing errors after the merge. This is new - they see enough benefit in velocity that justifies merging bugs and dealing with it later.
And it reminds me of when git came out and Linus said that git being super fast locally created a qualitative change in engineers head - it became a new way of working back then.