OpenAI built itself a new Git backend, too

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OpenAI on Monday detailed how it built a new Git backend for its monorepo to power the ever-increasing number of commits its developers and their agents now create. Pando, as the team calls the new backend, cut push latency by nearly 5x, the company says, and it currently serves close to a petabyte of Git data per day at OpenAI.

OpenAI is obviously an early adopter of agentic coding tools. Compared to the first quarter of 2024, the quarterly commits to its monorepo will have increased by over 2,400% by the end of this year, the company says. But the issues it is facing are similar to what many other enterprises and Git forges like GitHub are now seeing.

With the pace of development increasing, Git itself is becoming a bottleneck. GitHub, for example, spent much of its recent Universe keynote on how it is improving its infrastructure to become faster and more reliable, all while serving billions of pull requests every month.

That has given rise to startups like Entire (from former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke) and projects like Origin from Cursor . …

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