So long, Spokes: GitHub rewrites storage to restore reliability, just in time for agentic hordes

kept by eddie oct 12

GitHub is rewriting its Git storage architecture, replacing the Spokes system with Azure Blob Storage to achieve a 35× write performance boost for agent-driven traffic.

Have the frontier labs mixed up AI safety and security? - Martin Alderson
Frontier labs confuse AI safety with security, treating safeguards as good enough most of the time, which caused sandbox escapes and shows security must be deterministic.
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Git at any scale
Cursor argues Git’s packfile‑based design hinders scalable hosting and presents Continuity, a S3‑backed write‑ahead log system that enables linear, consistent replication.
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