"Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. " Wow, that is some incredible growth in a really short time.
I mean if I set up a for loop spamming my own SAAS it would be incredible growth too
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#172"Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. " Wow, that is some incredible growth in a really short time.
Not sure to be honest, from a machine perspective 2X should never be a big deal, unless 1.4 was the threshold or sweet state and no one thought too much about scale and architecture beyond that
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#173"Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. " Wow, that is some incredible growth in a really short time.
Truly incredible in every sense of the word.
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#174Everyone suggesting that they simply charge users for commits to drive off AI-heavy users forgets that Github is owned by Microsoft, who has a big incentive to keep having developers use AI. I suspect that Microsoft would even prefer to have Github operate at a loss, if that loss were because all its users were using their models and paying for OpenAI subscriptions to generate the code.
Microsoft has a financial incentive to push LLMs and also an existential reason since LLM-generated code is incompatible with the GPL.
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alot of distributed systems in big companies grow at this rate, its not exponential, its mundane
Eh, I would be more empathic in this situation[0]. Github isn’t small startup, where other 10x threshold is as cheap as buy bigger box in your IaaS. When you are already biggest player in the ecosystem and you suddenly get 10x persisted traffic, with at least 30x+ forecast “soon” - I am not surprised they have issues. [0] even at current MS owned github
cloud providers and hyper growth tech deal with these growth rates all the time
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#178"Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. " Wow, that is some incredible growth in a really short time.
Not sure to be honest, from a machine perspective 2X should never be a big deal, unless 1.4 was the threshold or sweet state and no one thought too much about scale and architecture beyond that
If you’re the size of GitHub and you’ve been running your infra for years with very little variation in traffic patterns you have a strong incentive to optimise costs for that existing behaviour.
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alot of distributed systems in big companies grow at this rate, its not exponential, its mundane
When a service that was already the primary git hosting provider for most of the world for 20 years grows at that rate its not mundane and its not comparable to any example.
AWS saw this growth every year for two decades, hyper growth tech sees it all the time
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True but paid users are also impacted.
We're still staying on Github at work, but have had backup self hosted git repos as a break glass option when Github is completely broken and leveraged this several times now.