Github Migration Architecture

Scalability
GitHub states it growth as “400 new users and 1000 new repositories every day”. Post migration GitHub will be running on infrastructure spread across 15+ physical hosts/servers. It is essential that the infrastructure can grow with the user base, from 10’s to 100’s of servers, without the need to re-architect everything. Without a doubt, growing without the associated pain is a major objective for GitHub as it moves forward.

Interesting Note: GitHub’s new physical infrastructure (at migration) consists of:

* 15+ physical servers
* 10+ virtual servers
* 128 physical processor cores
* Over 288GBs RAM
* 1TB+ of storage
(Link: Github Migration Architecture)