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Scaling Git at OpenAI

What happened

OpenAI built Pando, a new backend for Git repositories, to handle the rapidly growing size and demand of their monorepo. The system, created by Aaron Friel, Taylor Blau, and Ted Nyman, keeps the familiar Git workflow while enabling horizontally scalable writes and high read throughput. Pando coordinates branch updates independently, allowing parallel pushes, and reuses packfiles across fetches to serve many clients efficiently. In production it cut median push latency by nearly five times and now moves almost a petabyte of Git data each day. The team plans to continue contributing improvements back to the Git ecosystem.

Why it matters

For everyday developers, faster pushes and fetches mean less waiting time when collaborating on large codebases, improving productivity. Maintaining Git compatibility ensures that existing tools and workflows continue to work without change.

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