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Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development

Oct 6, 2026Brian Celenza
Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development
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This post explores the demands shaping the next architectural shift in Git infrastructure driven by agentic software development. It highlights the need for a different Git architecture to support concurrent workloads from developers and agents in repositories receiving millions of commits daily. The post discusses the scale of current high-volume workloads and the design principles behind rebuilding GitHub's Git infrastructure to accommodate these demands.

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