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		sofixa on Sept 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to hand... >It seems crazy that they use the standard off the shelf option but they've contributed a massive amount of work to improving it. Especially considering Gitlab developed Gitaly due to scale and redundancy issues with a regular filesystem.

iudqnolq on Sept 28, 2021 [–]

Skimming search results for that I think GitHub does something similar. It seems Gitaly is an rpc layer between the frontend and git c code running on file servers, no?

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