Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out

kept by eddie dec 25, 25

Package managers that use git as a database for registry data inevitably hit scaling limits, forcing migrations to HTTP-based or CDN-backed solutions.

Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
Using Git as a package manager backend causes performance and scaling problems as ecosystems grow, leading to workarounds like proxies and sparse checkouts.
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GitHub's plan for Agents — Kyle Daigle, GitHub
GitHub COO Kyle Daigle discusses how AI agents caused platform activity to surge 1400% in 2026, straining infrastructure and forcing GitHub to rethink open-source social contracts and reliability.
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Your executable is a SQLite database
Replacing ELF with SQLite as an executable format (SELF) yields queryable binaries with ~1% size overhead, enabling closure‑based dependency packing and SQL‑based tooling.
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Your CI should be disposable
The article argues CI should only schedule builds, delegating actual builds to local tools like Docker or Nix so workflows remain runnable even if CI services fail.
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Cursed Bundler: Using go get to install Ruby Gems
Go's module proxy and transparency log can be repurposed to fetch and verify Ruby gems with better integrity guarantees than RubyGems itself.
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