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Pankaj Tanwar
I write about System Design & Web Tech. Curious about how things work!
Github is one of the world’s largest code hosting platforms for collaboration and version control. Scale at Github Repository - 200M Repo (Including 30M Public Repo) Active Users - 50M Before directly jumping into data storage, let’s quickly go thr...
Altaf Shaikh
Software Developer @ Contentstack
what is a smoke service and Chimney ?? Any reference to learn them..google is showing weird results.
Please head over to github.blog/2009-10-20-how-we-made-github-fast
(Under tracing a HTTP request section)
thank you : D Pankaj Tanwar
Eleftheria Batsou
Community Manager | Developer & UX | Youtuber ❤
Wow, I had no idea the numbers of active users and repos were so big!
Thank you for the explanation :)
Glad that you liked it!!!
Jessica Carter
I code and dream. About Life and Health
Really Helpful. Thanks a lot.
Thank you!!!
Sanjay Pandita
I write code, which can be visible on screen(UI).
Very informative.
Thank you very much!! 👏
Edidiong Asikpo (Didi)
Senior Developer Advocate at Ambassador Labs
It feels really good to now know how GitHub stores millions of data. Thanks for sharing this useful information, Pankaj Tanwar. 😀
Thank you Edidiong Asikpo
Altaf Shaikh
Software Developer @ Contentstack
what is a smoke service and Chimney ?? Any reference to learn them..google is showing weird results.