GitHub's Distributed Architecture
How GitHub handles millions of repositories and billions of Git operations. Shows load-balanced Rails application servers, distributed Git storage on Spokes, MySQL cluster for metadata, Redis for caching and queues, Elasticsearch for code search, Actions CI/CD runner, Packages registry, and webhook …
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How GitHub handles millions of repositories and billions of Git operations. Shows load-balanced Rails application servers, distributed Git storage on Spokes, MySQL cluster for metadata, Redis for caching and queues, Elasticsearch for code search, Actions CI/CD runner, Packages registry, and webhook delivery.
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February 9, 2026
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March 13, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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