Reading up on scaling

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.

Using Git as a package manager backend causes performance and scaling problems as ecosystems grow, leading to workarounds like proxies and sparse checkouts.

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