That was a very well written and interesting article. I really enjoyed it. Some good background for people telling GitHub to "just scale".
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#12The key part: they decided to use the unchanged git codebase as their building block. Likely assuming that the people who wrote the Linux kernel probably knew what they were doing. That explains some features that look bizarre from the generic distributed-database perspective. I think the author has had this argument many times, because he reiterates it several times in the post. The rest follows from it.
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#14https://cursor.com/en-US/blog/git-at-any-scale to avoid automatic translations (couldn't find a button to switch)
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#15It’s hard to overstate the reputation of the author of this post. Everything good about GitHub’s internal systems seemed to have his name all over it (I realize that today this statement hits different than a few years ago). Our times at GH didn’t overlap much but hearing the fact that he’s working at cursor increases my estimation of their engineering org by leaps and bounds.
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#16I don’t see a button to switch to English and the German text is a pain to read, comparable to Reddit auto translate..
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#17WAL on S3 is the new normal.
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#18https://cursor.com/en-US/blog/git-at-any-scale to avoid automatic translations (couldn't find a button to switch)
Thank you so much, what an obnoxious behavior!
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#19It’s hard to overstate the reputation of the author of this post. Everything good about GitHub’s internal systems seemed to have his name all over it (I realize that today this statement hits different than a few years ago). Our times at GH didn’t overlap much but hearing the fact that he’s working at cursor increases my estimation of their engineering org by leaps and bounds.
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