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Distributed Systems

How large systems store, replicate and serve data, traced from the data model down to the storage layer.

  1. How GitHub Stores Petabytes of Code: Under the Hood of Git

    18 min read

    A deep dive into how GitHub stores and serves petabytes of source code using Git's content-addressable storage model, packfiles, delta compression, distributed architecture, and large-scale storage systems. Learn how commits, blobs, trees, and packfiles work together to efficiently manage billions of repositories and trillions of Git objects.

    • Git
    • GitHub
    • Distributed Systems
    • System Design
    • Software Engineering
    • Version Control
    • Scalability